| Description |
1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Summary |
This book closes a gap in postcolonial theory through its scrutiny of how four Indian and Nigerian English plays that are situated in national traditions reframed their own cultural terrain in international terms. It maps the trajectory that Indian and Nigerian dramatists, such as Rabindranath Tagore, Wole Soyinka and Badal Sircar, adopted as they moved from the specific to the bicultural to the global. The intercultural dialectic validated here provides a protean comparative scaffolding that evolves out of, and reflects, the interculturality of the literatures it is critiquing, allowing the b. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Nigerian drama (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Nigerian drama (English) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Publisher, Cambridge Scholars. New Postcolonial Dialectics : An Intercultural Comparison of Indian and Nigerian English Plays. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2019 |
| ISBN |
1527522598 |
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9781527522596 (electronic bk.) |
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