Editors' Note: November 2022

Risam, Roopika; Guiliano, Jennifer

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“…20 Accordingly, Banerji's vituperation against 'simply listing a bunch of plays from the more melanated or non-English speaking worlds' needs to be read in light of the critique of 'white people… "decolonizing" everything' or, in more polished terms, decolonization as an infelicitous performative. 21 This critique further extends to decolonization theory itself, which has come under fire for its vacuity and potential for causing harm. Olúfẹ ḿi Táíwò belabours the point as to how much of the work that currently falls under decolonization can be achieved without the term and 'the histrionics that go with it'.…”

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Decolonization and Theatre History

Nicholson

2023

New Theatre Quarterly

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‘Decolonization’ has superseded ‘postcolonial’ as the most compelling catchword of the present moment. Broadly speaking, the term possesses two parallel genealogies: African decolonization and Latin American decoloniality. But where are Asian territories such as India and Hong Kong, and, more specifically, fields such as theatre history, located in the debate? This article analyzes the stakes and struggles, inner contradictions and blind spots, involved in decolonizing or decentring the curriculum. It asks whether the decolonial temporalities of our time constitute an adequate lens to theorize theatre history by firstly examining the term’s misuse by popular historians, media, and government; and, second, by interrogating a spectrum of positions on ‘Indian Theatre’ from the nineteenth century onwards. Through this double focus, the article probes the scholarly possibilities for undoing the dominant mode when the ‘decolonization trope itself becomes a tool for colonization’.

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Section: Decolonization As An Infelicitous Performativementioning

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Decolonization and Theatre History

Nicholson

2023

New Theatre Quarterly

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