Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India

Sinha Roy, Mallarika

  • 出版商: Cambridge
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-11
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 84
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1009500228
  • ISBN-13: 9781009500227
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Among the most significant playwrights and theatre-makers of postcolonial India, Utpal Dutt (1929-1993), was an early exponent of rethinking colonial history through political theatre. Dutt envisaged political theatre as part of the larger Marxist project, and his incorporation of new developments in Marxist thinking, including the contributions of Antonio Gramsci, makes it possible to conceptualise his protagonists as insurgent subalterns. A decolonial approach to staging history remained a significant element in Dutt's artistic project. This Element examines Dutt's passionate engagement with Marxism and explores how this sense of urgency was actioned through the writing and producing of plays about the peasant revolts and armed anti-colonial movements which took place during the period of British rule. Drawing on contemporary debates in political theatre regarding the autonomy of the spectator and the performance of history, the author locates Dutt's political theatre in a historical frame.

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在印度後殖民時期最重要的劇作家和劇場製作人中,Utpal Dutt(1929-1993)是重新思考殖民歷史的政治劇場的早期倡導者。杜特將政治劇場視為更大馬克思主義項目的一部分,他將馬克思主義思想的新發展,包括安東尼奧·格拉姆西的貢獻,納入其中,使我們能夠將他的主角概念化為叛亂的次級階層。解殖民的方式在杜特的藝術項目中仍然是一個重要元素。本文探討了杜特對馬克思主義的熱情參與,並探索了這種迫切感如何通過撰寫和製作關於農民起義和反殖民武裝運動的劇本來實現,這些事件發生在英國統治時期。作者借鑒了政治劇場中關於觀眾自主性和歷史表演的當代辯論,將杜特的政治劇場置於歷史框架中。