South Asian' Diaspora Theatre in Sydney

Cultural Politics of the Proscenium and Transforming the Mise-En-Scène

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ID3608490
AutoresArnab Roy Chowdhury (0000-0001-6626-3936, School of Sociology, HSE University, Moscow, Russia, autor correspondente), Ahmed Abidur Razzaque Khan (0000-0001-9732-3284, General Education Department (GED), University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Ano2024
Volume45
Fascículo2
Páginas190-207
Data de publicação2024-03-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07256868.2023.2247344
OpenAlexW4386000028
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas31

The Nautanki Theatre Company (Nautanki) has been actively performing drama in Sydney since 2012, and it has been organising the South Asian Theatre Festival since 2016. We study their discourses, cultural politics, and practices; conduct an ethnographic observation of performances; and interview performers, organisers, and survey audiences of the 2019 theatre festival in-depth. We contend that by hosting performances and events, Nautanki creates a space for amicable, intercultural dwellings in which collective identity is forged through cross-cultural dialogue, deliberation, embodied aesthetics, and bottom-up intercultural ethics that shift state-promoted top-down multicultural ideas and policies. Nautanki also instils a sense of longing for cultural novelty, authenticity, and participation, and creates a hybrid cultural ‘South Asian’ community identity, in Sydney

Aesthetics · Art · Diaspora · Drama · Indigenous · Interculturalism · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Socioeconomic Development in Asia