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Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama

- Community, Kinship, and Citizenship

About Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama

In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by contesting the idea of the heterosexual, middle class, wage-earning male as the model citizen and by suggesting alternative conceptions of citizenship premised on working-class sexual identities. Further, Batra considers the possibility of Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian drama generating a discourse on a rights-bearing conception of citizenship that derives from representations of non-biological, non-generational forms of kinship. Her study is one of the first to examine the ways in which postcolonial dramatists are creating the possibility of a dialogue between cultural activism, womenΓÇÖs movements, and an emerging discourse on queer sexualities.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780415818179
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 194
  • Published:
  • November 12, 2012
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x0 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 360 g.
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Expected delivery: November 13, 2024

Description of Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama

In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by contesting the idea of the heterosexual, middle class, wage-earning male as the model citizen and by suggesting alternative conceptions of citizenship premised on working-class sexual identities. Further, Batra considers the possibility of Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian drama generating a discourse on a rights-bearing conception of citizenship that derives from representations of non-biological, non-generational forms of kinship. Her study is one of the first to examine the ways in which postcolonial dramatists are creating the possibility of a dialogue between cultural activism, womenΓÇÖs movements, and an emerging discourse on queer sexualities.

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