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ARTICLES

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

  • Different Othello(s) and Contentious Spectators: Changing Responses in India.” Gramma. (Forthcoming)
  • Editorial, “Postcolonial Theatres.” Special Issue of Feminist Review . Vol. 84, 2006, 5-9.
  • “Postcolonialism’s Possibilities for Intercultural British Theatre and Practice.” Literary Research/ Recherche littéraire 21.41-42 (2004): 39-44.
  • “Are There Places Anymore?”: Performing the Indian Subcontinent in Britain” Modern Drama, XLVI. 4 (Winter 2003): 629-645.
  • “Fashioning Women in Colonial India.” Fashion Theory. The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. 7.3/4 (September/December 2003): 327-344.
  • “Imperialistic Representations and Spectatorial Reception in Shakespeare Wallah,” Modern Drama 1.XLV (Spring 2002): 61-75.
  • “Staging the 1857 Mutiny as ‘the Great Rebellion’: Colonial History and Post-Colonial Interventions in Utpal Dutt’s Mahavidroh.Theatre Journal 51 (May 1999): 167-184.
  • “Anger, Nostalgia, and the End of Empire. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger.” Modern Drama, 42.3 (Fall 1999): 391-400.
  • “Women, Homelands, and the Indian Diaspora.” Centennial Review, 42. 3 (Fall 1998): 511-526.
  • “Shakespeare and the Codes of Empire in India.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. 19 (1998): 96-126.
  • “Kipling’s Burden: Representing Colonial Authority and Constructing the ‘Other’ through Kimball O’Hara and Babu Hurree Chander in Kim.” South Asia Graduate Research Journal 1.1 (1994): 1-13.

 

Refereed Articles in Edited Books

  • “The Actress in Colonial India.” (for a book on “Gender and Theatre in India.” Book under review)
  • “ ‘Indian Shakespeare’ and the Politics of Language in Colonial India.” The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity. Eds. Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson. University Park: Penn State University Press. 2003. 198-219.
  • “Romantic Transgressions in the Colonial Zone: Reading Mircea Eliade’s Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi’s It Does Not Die.” South Asian Women in the Diaspora. Eds. Nirmal Puwar and Parvati Raghuram. UK: Berg, 2003. 99-116
  • “ ‘How Long Does Lahore Burn?’ History, Memory, and Literary Representations of the Partition.” Pangs of Partition. The Cultural Dimension. Eds. Indira Gupta and Settar. Delhi: Manohar, 2002. 191-208.
  • “Robert Sherwood.” 20 th Century American Drama in DLB, Ed. Christopher Wheatley. Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2001.
  • “Staging Resistance: The Indian People’s Theatre Association.” The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital. Eds. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd. Duke University Press, 1997. 432-460.
  • “Whither the Colonial Question? Jean Renoir’s The River.” Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism. Perspectives from the French and Francophone Worlds. Ed. Dina Sherzer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. 51-64.
  • “Twentieth Century Hindi Literature.” Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India. Ed. Nalini Natarajan. Westport: Greenwood, 1996. 134-159.
 
Short Articles and Reviews
  • Review Article. “Reassessing the ‘National’ in Modern Indian Theatre.” Journal of Asian Studies (Forthcoming)
  • Review of Woman and Indian Modernity: Readings of Colonial and Postcolonial Novels by Nalini Natarajan. University Press of the South, New Orleans, 2002. Feminist Review 2 (2006):
  • Review of Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity by Dorothy M. Figueira. The Comparatist 28 (May 2005): 159-160.
  • Review of Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain by Gabriele Griffin. Modern Drama: world drama from 1850 to the present, Volume 48, Number 1 (Spring 2005): 206-208 .
  • Review of Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69 by Ruth Compton Brouwer. Vancouver and Toronto: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. University of Toronto Quarterly 74: 1 (Winter 2004/2005):491-493.
  • Review of En-Gendering India by Sangeeta Ray. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Feminist Review 74 (2003): 113-114.
  • Review of Pandita Ramabai: Through her Own Words. Compiled and edited with an introduction by Meera Kosambi. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. Feminist Review 74 (2003): 115-116.
  • “Young South Asians Speak: Culture, Communalism and Identity.” SAMAR 2 (Summer 1993): 41-44.
  • “The 1992 U.S. Anti-India Bill: Playing Politics With Human Rights.” SAMAR 1 (Fall 1992): 19-20.
  • "Indo-Anglian Writing" Himal. South Asian Monthly. August 1999: 10-13.
  • “Nanak.” Great Thinkers of the Eastern World. Ed. Ian P. McGreal. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1995. 240-243.
  • Review of Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism and the Colonial Context , Tejaswini Niranjana. Committee for South Asian Women’s Bulletin, 9 (1-4) Fall 1994: 40-41. (With Purnima Bose).

 

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • “Mythological Drama and the Politics of Nationalism inColonial India.” South Asian Review. The Journal of the South Asia Literary Association. 21 (2000): 90-91.