Rustom Bharucha
Biographic Data
| ID | 549166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rustom Bharucha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rustom |
| FAMILY NAME | Bharucha |
| SIGNATURE | BHARUCHA R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Virality, Plurality, and the Future of Discourse: A Conversation with Rustom Bharucha
Virality, Plurality, and the Future of Discourse: A Conversation with Rustom Bharucha Rustom Bharucha (bio) and Carla Neuss (bio) This interview was conducted in June 2023 at Yale University through the support and generosity of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, UCLA, and ATHE; it has been edited for clarity and length. Carla Neuss (CN): So, the first thing I would love to talk about is your Theatre Journal article on Shakespeare. It was publis…
Collaboration and Co-finitude: An agenda of care and ends
For Phillip: Remembering a Friend
It is going to take some time for me to fully accept that Phillip Zarrilli is no more. Phillip, as I knew him as a friend, continues to live in my mind's eye with memories of ceaseless conversations, exchanges of letters and interactions in different parts of the world. Just three months before his death on 28 April 2020, we had met in Kerala, his second home, in the town of Kunnamkulam, where we had watched a high-voltage, virtuoso performance o…
On Bones and Brooms: Re‐Materialising the Imaginary of the Future
Sifting through images of bones and brooms linked to the landscape and conceptualisation of a desert museum in Rajasthan, this article reflects on what can be learned through material culture in strengthening the depleted imaginaries of contemporary art practice. Calling attention to the residues of knowledge available from marginalised communities in India – bone‐collectors, broom‐makers and ‘de‐notified’ tribes – the author makes a case for ren…
The Limits of the Beyond: Contemporary Art Practice, Intervention and Collaboration in Public Spaces
My earlier critical intervention, Beyond the Box, problematised the phenomenon of the ‘new Asian museum’ within a broader polemic against museumisation, 1 but it did not attempt the more elusive ta
Thinking through Translation: The Psychophysical Dynamics of Direction
Thinking through Translation: The Psychophysical Dynamics of Direction Rustom Bharucha In The Politics of Cultural Practice I reflected on different stages of translation with particular reference to the dramaturgy of a text, within the intracultural context of a particular theatre culture in India—a context in which local differences in language (and inevitably in caste, class, and community) are subsumed within the imagined cultural homogeneity…
Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin
This book explores the convergence of different notions of Asia through the meeting between Rabindranath Tagore and the Japanese art historian and curator Okakura Tenshin in Calcutta in 1902. Set against a panoramic background, it draws on the intersections of the late Meiji period in Japan and the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and…
Muslims and others: Anecdotes, fragments, and uncertainties of evidence
Against the intensified communalization of civil society and the emergence of new modes of racism in contemporary India, this essay juxtaposes different histories of the Other through critical insights into the construction and demonization of the Indian Muslim. Working through anecdotes and fragments, bits and pieces of history, this disjunctive discourse on the Other attempts to trouble liberal assumptions of cultural identity by calling attent…
Foreign Asia / Foreign Shakespeare: Dissenting Notes on New Asian Interculturality, Postcoloniality, and Recolonization
Decanonizing the larger monolithic and Orientalist associations of Shakespeare and Asia, this essay problematizes their diverse relationships by focusing on three discrete, yet politically and economically linked, sites of investigation: New Asian explorations of Shakespeare in which the dramatic text is subsumed within ostensibly deconstructive scenarios exploring inter-Asian cultural difference; postcolonial critiques of Shakespearean adaptatio…
Genet in Manila
Under the sign of 'Asia: Rethinking 'creative unity' beyond the 'rebirth of traditional arts
Beyond the box: Problematising The ‘new Asian Museum’
Interculturalism and its discriminations: Shifting the agendas of the national, the multicultural and the global
Negotiating the "River": Intercultural Interactions and Interventions
I would like to reflect on the river as a metaphor of cultural exchange in the larger context of interactions and interventions in theatre. By the intracultural I mean those exchanges within, between, and across regions in the larger framework of a nation. In our search for other we often forget the cultures within our own boundaries, the differences which are marginalized and occasionally silenced in our imagined homogeneities. We also tend to v…
Chandralekha: Woman Dance Resistance
When ‘Eternal India’ meets the YPO: Fifty years of dependence
Poverty refuses to disappear as a problem, thereby counterinig the wish-filfilment of global moguls. Conversely capitalism as a narrative and practice continuies to thrive, assumintg intcreasinzgly invisible antd chimerical inaiifestatiots, which would seem to reduce the earlier modes of capitalisin to a state of spectrality. Th-ese refusals to die of povertv, capitalism an-d the Orient are the major concerns of this story. Through a descriptiotn…
Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture
In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective. Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends that Indian theatre has been grossly mythologised…
Somebody's other: Disorientations in the cultural politics of our times
1994). Somebody's other: Disorientations in the cultural politics of our times. Third Text: Vol. 8, No. 26, pp. 3-10
Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture
Around Ayodhya: Aberrations, enigmas, and moments of violence
Indian Theatre and the Inside-Outsider
Theatre and the World: Essays on Performance and Politics of Culture
The Rushdie affair: Secular bigotry & the ambivalence of faith
(1990). The Rushdie affair: Secular bigotry & the ambivalence of faith. Third Text: Vol. 4, ‘Beyond the Rushdie Affair’, pp. 61-70
Theatrework: The "Request Concert" Project
Rehearsals of Revolution. The Political Theater of Bengal
Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture
Foreign Asia / Foreign Shakespeare: Dissenting Notes on New Asian Interculturality, Postcoloniality, and Recolonization
Decanonizing the larger monolithic and Orientalist associations of Shakespeare and Asia, this essay problematizes their diverse relationships by focusing on three discrete, yet politically and economically linked, sites of investigation: New Asian explorations of Shakespeare in which the dramatic text is subsumed within ostensibly deconstructive scenarios exploring inter-Asian cultural difference; postcolonial critiques of Shakespearean adaptatio…
Beyond the box: Problematising The ‘new Asian Museum’
Somebody's other: Disorientations in the cultural politics of our times
1994). Somebody's other: Disorientations in the cultural politics of our times. Third Text: Vol. 8, No. 26, pp. 3-10
Under the sign of 'Asia: Rethinking 'creative unity' beyond the 'rebirth of traditional arts
Interculturalism and its discriminations: Shifting the agendas of the national, the multicultural and the global
Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture
In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective. Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends that Indian theatre has been grossly mythologised…
Muslims and others: Anecdotes, fragments, and uncertainties of evidence
Against the intensified communalization of civil society and the emergence of new modes of racism in contemporary India, this essay juxtaposes different histories of the Other through critical insights into the construction and demonization of the Indian Muslim. Working through anecdotes and fragments, bits and pieces of history, this disjunctive discourse on the Other attempts to trouble liberal assumptions of cultural identity by calling attent…
Genet in Manila
When ‘Eternal India’ meets the YPO: Fifty years of dependence
Poverty refuses to disappear as a problem, thereby counterinig the wish-filfilment of global moguls. Conversely capitalism as a narrative and practice continuies to thrive, assumintg intcreasinzgly invisible antd chimerical inaiifestatiots, which would seem to reduce the earlier modes of capitalisin to a state of spectrality. Th-ese refusals to die of povertv, capitalism an-d the Orient are the major concerns of this story. Through a descriptiotn…
A Reply to Richard Schechner
If my article Collision of Cultures: Some Western Interpretations of the Indian (Bharucha 1984) were as reductive, incomplete, and inaccurate as Schechner claims, I fail to see why he should respond to it with so much passion and rancor. A few lines would have been sufficient to dismiss the apparent ignorance of my piece. On re-reading my essay in relation to Schechner's response, I believe that what is actually at stake in our confrontation is n…
The Inspector General
Summer Vacation Madness
Rehearsals of Revolution
Confessions of an Itinerant Critic
A Collision of Cultures: Some Western Interpretations of the Indian Theatre
We claim, rightly or wrongly, to represent a superior civilization, and because of the right given us by virtue of this superiority, which we regularly affirm with such assurance as makes it seem incontestable to the natives, we have called in question all their native traditions. . . . We must offer ourselves to these (Oriental) civilizations as we do our other products, that is, on the local exchange market. -Sylvain Levi, Memorial Sylvain Levi…
A Reply to Richard Schechner
If my article Collision of Cultures: Some Western Interpretations of the Indian (Bharucha 1984) were as reductive, incomplete, and inaccurate as Schechner claims, I fail to see why he should respond to it with so much passion and rancor. A few lines would have been sufficient to dismiss the apparent ignorance of my piece. On re-reading my essay in relation to Schechner's response, I believe that what is actually at stake in our confrontation is n…
Rehearsals of Revolution. The Political Theater of Bengal
Theatrework: The "Request Concert" Project
The Rushdie affair: Secular bigotry & the ambivalence of faith
(1990). The Rushdie affair: Secular bigotry & the ambivalence of faith. Third Text: Vol. 4, ‘Beyond the Rushdie Affair’, pp. 61-70
Theatre and the World: Essays on Performance and Politics of Culture
Indian Theatre and the Inside-Outsider
Around Ayodhya: Aberrations, enigmas, and moments of violence
Somebody's other: Disorientations in the cultural politics of our times
1994). Somebody's other: Disorientations in the cultural politics of our times. Third Text: Vol. 8, No. 26, pp. 3-10
Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture
Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture
In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective. Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends that Indian theatre has been grossly mythologised…
Negotiating the "River": Intercultural Interactions and Interventions
I would like to reflect on the river as a metaphor of cultural exchange in the larger context of interactions and interventions in theatre. By the intracultural I mean those exchanges within, between, and across regions in the larger framework of a nation. In our search for other we often forget the cultures within our own boundaries, the differences which are marginalized and occasionally silenced in our imagined homogeneities. We also tend to v…
Chandralekha: Woman Dance Resistance
When ‘Eternal India’ meets the YPO: Fifty years of dependence
Poverty refuses to disappear as a problem, thereby counterinig the wish-filfilment of global moguls. Conversely capitalism as a narrative and practice continuies to thrive, assumintg intcreasinzgly invisible antd chimerical inaiifestatiots, which would seem to reduce the earlier modes of capitalisin to a state of spectrality. Th-ese refusals to die of povertv, capitalism an-d the Orient are the major concerns of this story. Through a descriptiotn…
Interculturalism and its discriminations: Shifting the agendas of the national, the multicultural and the global
Beyond the box: Problematising The ‘new Asian Museum’
Under the sign of 'Asia: Rethinking 'creative unity' beyond the 'rebirth of traditional arts
Genet in Manila
Muslims and others: Anecdotes, fragments, and uncertainties of evidence
Against the intensified communalization of civil society and the emergence of new modes of racism in contemporary India, this essay juxtaposes different histories of the Other through critical insights into the construction and demonization of the Indian Muslim. Working through anecdotes and fragments, bits and pieces of history, this disjunctive discourse on the Other attempts to trouble liberal assumptions of cultural identity by calling attent…
Foreign Asia / Foreign Shakespeare: Dissenting Notes on New Asian Interculturality, Postcoloniality, and Recolonization
Decanonizing the larger monolithic and Orientalist associations of Shakespeare and Asia, this essay problematizes their diverse relationships by focusing on three discrete, yet politically and economically linked, sites of investigation: New Asian explorations of Shakespeare in which the dramatic text is subsumed within ostensibly deconstructive scenarios exploring inter-Asian cultural difference; postcolonial critiques of Shakespearean adaptatio…
Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin
This book explores the convergence of different notions of Asia through the meeting between Rabindranath Tagore and the Japanese art historian and curator Okakura Tenshin in Calcutta in 1902. Set against a panoramic background, it draws on the intersections of the late Meiji period in Japan and the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and…
Art (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works)