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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Gender, Space and Resistance: Womens Theatre in India,
forthcoming anthology
> H-ASIA
> February 21, 2011
>
> Call for contributions to forthcoming anthology: Gender, Space and
> Resistance: Womens Theatre in India
>
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Gender, Space and Resistance: Womens Theatre in India
>
> Publication Date: 2011-04-30
> Date Submitted: 2011-02-20
> Announcement ID: 183243
>
> Gender, Space and Resistance: Womens Theatre in India
>
> Theme
>
> Theatre in India has a long tradition. Women have performed roles that
> have ranged from playwright to direction and acting, to criticism,
> research and organization. There is extensive material to show the
> presence of women in all these areas. This proposed anthology furthers
> research undertaken to explore women's presence in and their contribution
> to theatre in the recorded history and provide a platform to raise,
> discuss and debate, to the minutest details, issues connected with
> theatrefrom aesthetics and techniques of the theatre to the political,
> social and moral values of the women involved in theatre. From the study
> of the available material it is seen that the actual contribution of women
> to theatre is marginalized in the otherwise comprehensive analysis of the
> theatre Thus an important component of women's cultural tradition is
> missing.
>
> 1960s threw up new spaces for reconceptualizing and negotiating questions
> of womens agency and identity. Aurat was street plays produced by Janamor
> Jan Natya Manch (Peoples Theatre) of India, (This play has had more than
> 2,500 performances, and has been translated into almost all Indian
> languages). It challenged bourgeois notions of womanhood and articulated a
> politics that explicitly connected gender, class, and sexuality with home,
> factory, and fields, on the one hand, and with revolutionary change, on
> the other. Flood gates for women centric plays were flung open .Much of
> the plays that surfaced were based on Brechtian poetics, in which the
> spectator delegates power to the character to act in her place but the
> spectator reserves the right to think for [herself] often in opposition to
> the character. In contrast to Aristotelian poetics, wherein a passive
> spectator experiences a catharsis at the end of the dramatic action, the
> Brechtian spectator achieves a more activist, unsettling, critical
> awareness of societal issues. New generation of theatre practitioners were
> sculpting a new dramaturgy, creating an audience that does not demand to
> be delighted but content to engage with dialectics. The ultimate objective
> of this theatre was the creation of a more just society.
>
> Topics Original and unpublished papers are invited on the following topics
> and we also welcome suggestion for inclusion of other relevant topics as
> well:
>
> 1. Trends in feminist theatre
> 2. Theorizing feminist theatre
> 3. Themes/concerns of feminist drama
> 4. Discussion of particular texts/productions/performances
> 5. Focus on major dramatist, director, dramaturge, performers, and
> technicians on stage
> 6. Pedagogical implications of feminist theatre
> 7. New directions in the 21st century
>
> MS Guide:
>
> Style: MLA
> Text: Heading 1Ariel 16 bold, Heading 2Ariel 14 bold, Body Ariel 12
> normal, double spaced, Letter
> Images/illustrations, if any: copyright free images in JPEG format between
> 800-1024 pixels on the longest side
> Word-limit: minimum 3000 words and maximum 5000 words.
>
> Submission:
>
> Please send an abstract of about 150-200 words explaining your proposal by
> February 28. If selected, final articles should be submitted by 30th April
> 2011.
>
> Contact
> Anita Singh
> Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu
> University Varanasi 221005, India. Email: anitasinghh@gmail.com
>
> Tarun Tapas Mukherjee
> Assistant Professor & Head, Department of English, Bhatter College,
> Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India. E-mail: ttm1974@gmail.com
>
>
> Tarun Tapas Mukherjee
> Assistant Professor & Head, Department of English, Bhatter College,
> Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India.
> Email: ttm1974@gmail.com
>
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