Contemporary Indian English Drama (ebook)

Argumento de Contemporary Indian English Drama (ebook)

The present volume is a comprehensive and indepth study of the major plays of the major dramatists of contemporary India. The papers present the study of the plays to establish that Indian English Drama is in search of new canonical idiom to establish the native identity of Indian English drama. Besides of the search for new theatrical strategies, it represents dramatist's quest to represent social issues like gender inequalities, women's suppression, growing depression and the triumph of violence and social unrest. The volume covers the critical analysis of Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court is in Session, and The Cyclist, Girish Karnad's Nagamandala and Hayvadana, Mahesh Dattani's Thirty Days in September, On a Muggi Night in Mumbai and Where There's a Will, Badal Sircar's Boma, Manula Padmanabhan's Lights Out and The Harvest. The Effort is made to explore innovative theatrical mechanism adopted by these dramatists to bring theatre close real life conditions. I hope that this volume will be of immense use for the researchers and academicians and will open the windows for new criticism and interpretations.

Dr. Beena Agarwal is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies, D.S. College, Aligarh. She has to her credit several articles and research papers published in the leading research journals and anthologies published in India. She has also to her credit a critical comprehensive study of the plays of Tagore entitled The Plays of Rabindranath Tagore: A Thematic Study. Her second book, published in 2008 is the first full length indepth study of the plays of Mahesh Dattani entitles Mahesh Dattani: A New Horizons in Indian Theatre. The detail study of the novels and short stories of Shashi Deshpande entitled Mosaic of the Fictional World of Shashi Deshpande came out in 2009. Beside, she has also authored the books Women Writers and Indian Diaspora, Contextualizing Dalit Consciousness in Indian English Literature and Paradigm Shift in Indian English Literature from Local to Global. Several research scholars have completed their projects and thesis for M.Phil. and Ph.D. under her supervision. Her areas of interest are Indian English Literature, Gender Studies, Indian Diaspora, Post Colonial Studies and Dalit Literature.0