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Postmodern Bengali Theatre: A Critical Assessment, with Reference to Select Playwrights’ Works

Editat de Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, Debashis Roy, Arnab Saha, Mainak Banerjee, Pinaki Roy Cuvânt înainte de Bratya Basu Contribuţii de Manojit Mondal, Neha Swarnakar, Srijani Chakraborty, Tanmoy Baghira, Amit Bhattacharya, Debapratim Chakraborty, Nandita Banerjee Dhawan, Bashabi Fraser, Sam Kolodezh, Zinia Mitra, Taarini Mookherjee, Ananya Mukherjee, Nirjhar Sarkar, Pradipta Sengupta, Ritushree Sengupta
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2026
Postmodern Bengali drama holds a special place in the ever-expanding body of world theatre in the 21stcentury. A number of powerful playwrights—who write primarily in Bengali but have been widely translated and performed—are mentionably contributing, almost regularly, for achieving international prominence for Indian theatre in particular, and for the Commonwealth Stage in general. The present volume aims to collect different essays by academicians, critics, and practicing theatre-personalities to describe how ‘Postmodern Bengali Theatre’ has become an important term in today’s world of performance, play-writing, and general literature. As Bengali theatre has undergone fast and remarkable changes since the beginning of its so-called ‘post-modern period’ (in early-post-independence-India), the elements of postmodernism in select plays by noted dramatists like Badal Sircar, Bratya Basu, Ujjwal Chattopadhyay, Hara Bhattacharya, and Tirthankar Chanda, have successfully challenged the perceived hegemony and conventions of post-modern Western theatre, and earned recognition for Indian productions. Select essays in the present volume—which can provide the paradigm for critical approaches to other postmodern playwrights’ works as well—have been dedicated to assessing the dramatic oeuvre of Bratya Basu, one of the more recognized Commonwealth dramatists in the 21st century, as well as those of (select) other post-modern Bengali dramatists. Moreover, the history of development of postmodern Bengali theater and its different literary aspects have been explored so that the anthology of critical writings becomes an indispensable handbook for academicians and researchers dealing with different aspects of drama and dramaturgy.
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ISBN-13: 9783838221014
ISBN-10: 383822101X
Pagini: 350
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Editura: Ibidem
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Locul publicării:Hannover, Germany

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This edited volume contains essays by different eminent academicians related to the plays by some of the leading Bengali playwrights of our times. It is, undoubtedly, a valuable addition to the ever-expanding body of critical approaches to Postmodern (Bengali) theatre in particular, and the Commonwealth Theatre in general. —Dr. Ashok Mukhopadhyay, Former Professor and Head of the Department of Drama, Rabindra Bharati University (Kolkata, West Bengal, India), and Director-Actor-Playwright of Eminence, Theatre Workshop, Kolkata.
Serious theatre keeps you very intelligent. To be mindful of good theatre, deep theatre makes you very serious and provokes you to engage with the content, concerning well planned serious productions. Any study of theatre in our postmodern times bespeaks a serious investment in the performing arts. This anthology of critical articles on postmodern Bengali theatre will bring out important dimensions of the texts in focus, giving relevant inputs to the readers, scholars, and researchers.—Dr. Namel Weeramuni, Bilingual (English, Sinhala) Sri Lankan litterateur, journalist, translator and actor.