Women and Indian Shakespeares

Women and Indian Shakespeares explores how women have been engaged with Shakespeare in India across various media, figures as resistant agents, and shapes alternative futures in patriarchal and societal barriers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 14 July 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Women and Indian Shakespeares delves into the diverse and multifaceted ways in which women have engaged with Shakespeare in India throughout history. This exploration encompasses a wide range of media, including translation, cinematic adaptation, early colonial performances, and contemporary theatrical experiments. At the same time, Women and Indian Shakespeares also highlights the ways in which women are portrayed in various representational registers, such as resistant agents, martial seductresses, redemptive daughters, victims of caste discrimination, conflicted spaces, and global citizens. By reorienting existing lines of inquiry, expanding the disciplinary field, bringing into visibility previously obscured subjects, and offering radical readings, the collection challenges prevailing narratives and opens up new avenues for understanding.

More broadly, Women and Indian Shakespeares identifies how women in Indian Shakespeares, both on stage and screen, are increasingly empowered to shape alternative futures amidst patriarchal and societal barriers of race, caste, religion, and class. Through repeated iterations, the collection directs our attention to localized modes of adaptation that create opportunities for women while celebrating Shakespeare's gendered interactions in India's rapidly changing and increasingly globalized cultural, economic, and political environment.

In the contributions to this collection, we witness a transformed Shakespeare, one that appears differently when viewed through the gendered lenses of a new Indian, diasporic, and global generation of critics, historians, archivists, practitioners, and directors. By radically reimagining Indian Shakespeares with women at the center, Women and Indian Shakespeares establishes a record of women as creators and adapters of Shakespeare in Indian contexts
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This interdisciplinary project interweaves history, regional geography/regionality, language, and the present day to create a comprehensive account of women's contributions to Shakespearean adaptations in India. By examining the ways in which women have engaged with Shakespeare across different periods and media, Women and Indian Shakespeares offers a rich tapestry of insights into the complex and evolving relationship between gender, culture, and literature. It sheds.

Weight: 486g
Dimension: 162 x 241 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350234321