Ibsen in the Decolonised South Asian Theatre

Sabiha Huq is Professor of English at Khulna University, Bangladesh.Srideep Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at Netaji Subhas Open University, India.

• IntroductionSABIHA HUQ AND SRIDEEP MUKHERJEE1 Postcolonial Theatre and Ibsen Productions in Pakistan: A Historical OverviewASGHAR NADEEM SYED2 Intercultural Assimilation of Contraries in Postcolonial South Asia: Fluctuating Movement of Ibsen’s CorpusKAMALUDDIN NILU3 Constructing a New Identity Space for Women in Post-Colony: Sambhu Mitra’s Production of A Doll’s HouseAHMED AHSANUZZAMAN4 Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Tehrik-e-Niswan’s A Doll’s House in UrduISHRAT LINDBLAD5 Nora and the Politics of Gender in the Postcolonial Performance Space in Sri LankaKANCHUKA DHARMASIRI AND KATHIRESU RATHITHARAN6 Has the Indian “Doll” Really Evolved?: A Doll’s House on Decolonised Indian Stage(s)SRIDEEP MUKHERJEE7 Middle-Class Liberal Values and the Bangladeshi National Imaginary: Ibsen’s Ghosts ReconfiguredMANOSH CHOWDHURY8 By Means of Ibsen: Theatre Amidst Rising Fanaticism in Post-Partition India and BangladeshSABIHA HUQ9 Kamaluddin Nilu’s Three “Peers”: Relocating Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt in South Asian ContemporaneityIMRAN KAMAL10 Unheard Voices and Refracted Essence: Bangla Adaptations of An Enemy of the People and The Pillars of SocietyTAPATI GUPTA11 A Doll’s House in Nepal: Rationalising the Appropriation of Putaliko GharMENUKA GURUNG12 Peer Ghani and Peechha Karti Parchhaiyan: Negotiating Adaptation and AppropriationASTRI GHOSHIndex