Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays: Poetics, Politics, and Theatre in India

by Diana Dimitrova

This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights. The book explores questions related to the ways in which seven representative playwrights imagine India and its identity and the ways, in which this concept is revealed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019286906X
• ISBN13: 9780192869067
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"