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Introduction: Transnational Revision and Rewriting in Tanika Gupta’s Theatre

  • Christiane Schlote

    teaches drama and postcolonial literatures and cultures at the University of Basel. She has published extensively on transnational theories and cultures (especially South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East), contemporary British and anglophone drama, global working-class studies, war and commemoration, migration and refugee discourses, petrofiction, postcolonial cityscapes, and Latina/o American and Asian American culture. She is the author of Bridging Cultures: Latino- und asiatisch-amerikanisches Theater in New York (1997) and co-editor of New Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama (with Peter Zenzinger, 2003), Constructing Media Reality: The New Documentarism (with Eckart Voigts-Virchow, special issue of ZAA, 2008), and Representations of War, Migration and Refugeehood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (with Daniel Rellstab, 2015).

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    and Giovanna Buonanno

    is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She is the author of the monograph International Actresses on the Victorian Stage (2002) and co-editor, among others, of Remediating Imagination: Literatures and Cultures in English from the Renaissance to the Postcolonial (2016). She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on intercultural theatre, Black and Asian British literature and theatre, refugee writing, and transnational women’s writing.

Published/Copyright: November 25, 2022

Published Online: 2022-11-25
Published in Print: 2022-11-08

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Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Frontmatter
  3. Introduction: Transnational Revision and Rewriting in Tanika Gupta’s Theatre
  4. The Country Wife, Southall Style: Restoration Comedy and the Multicultural Gaze
  5. “Through the Pen to Begin with”: Anticolonial Resistance in Tanika Gupta’s Adaptation of Great Expectations
  6. Indian Servitude(s) in Imperial London: Tanika Gupta’s The Empress
  7. Transadaptation and Bollywoodisation in Tanika Gupta’s Hobson’s Choice and Wah! Wah! Girls
  8. Adapting British Asian Women’s Stories: Tanika Gupta’s Anita and Me
  9. The Politics of Experimental Drama: Unexpected Conformity and Weird Resistance in Alistair McDowall’s Pomona
  10. Anja Hartl. Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today. London: Methuen, 2021, vii + 192 pp., £80.00 (hardback), £72.00 (EPUB/Mobi ebook), £72.00 (PDF ebook).
  11. Ian Ward. The Play of Law in Modern British Theatre. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2021, 221 pp., £80 (hardback), £75 (PDF ebook).
  12. Selina Busby. Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia. London: Methuen Drama, 2022, xv + 247 pp., £72.00 (hardback), £22.49 (paperback), £57.60 (PDF ebook).
  13. Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan, ed. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics. London: Routledge, 2019, xx + 364 pp., £190.00 (hardback), £39.99 (paperback), £35.99 (ebook).
  14. Michael Billington. Affair of the Heart: British Theatre from 1992 to 2020. London: Methuen Drama, 2021, 303 pp., £25.00 (hardback), £22.50 (ebook).
  15. Alan Read. The Dark Theatre: A Book About Loss. London: Routledge, 2020, viii + 342 pp., £120.00 (hardback), £34.99 (paperback), £29.74 (ebook).
  16. Carina E. I. Westling. Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk’s Theatrical Worlds. London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2020, vi + 200 pp., £65.00 (hardback), £21.99 (paperback), £19.79 (PDF ebook).
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