Contents
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Abbreviations
1. Postcolonial Frames and the Subject of Modern Indian Theatre
Part I: The Field of Indian Theatre after Independence
2. The Formation of a New "National Canon"
3. Authorship, Textuality, and Multilingualism
4. Production and Reception
5. Orientalism, Cultural Nationalism, and the Erasure of the Present
Part II
6. Myth, Ambivalence, and Evil
7. The Ironic History of the Nation
8. Realism and the Edifice of Home
9. Alternative Stages
10. Intertexts and Countertexts
Appendixes
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Appendix 7
Appendix 8
Appendix 9
Appendix 10
Notes
Bibliography
Index