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dc.contributor.authorBuonanno, Giovanna
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-02T15:43:33Z
dc.date.available2023-10-02T15:43:33Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationBuonanno, Giovanna. "Reimagining the New Woman: Tanika Gupta’s adaptation of A Doll’s House (2019) on the London stage".it_IT
dc.identifier.isbn978-88-290-1439-2it_IT
dc.identifier.issn1974-2886it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6755
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-4816
dc.description.abstractThe reception of Ibsen’s plays in England has been amply documented by scholars who have focused especially on how his work resonated with feminist writers and intellectuals championing the New Woman in late Victorian Britain. It was especially the character of Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House that galvanized the activity of translators and actresses, who teased out the complexity of this character and its significance in the cultural context of fin de siècle Britain. In later epochs, the play has frequently been revived through rewritings that have gradually aligned Nora’s predicament and her quest for self-realization with the changing roles of women in society. In the 2019 rewriting of A Doll’s House by playwright Tanika Gupta, the play is relocated to Calcutta in 1879, the year A Doll’s House was written and two years after Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. Nora/Niru is a Bengali middle-class woman married to an English manager, Tom Helmer. The adaptation strengthens therefore the transnational appeal of the play that early women translators into English had intended to unpack, while simultaneously providing insights into Anglo-Indian relations in imperial Britain. This article intends to focus on the strategies adopted by Gupta in her postcolonial relocation of Ibsen’s work. Gupta’s intersectional take on the woman question brings to the fore interconnected issues of race, class and gender, thus contributing to the construction of the new woman in diasporic South Asian women’s writing (Hussain 2005).it_IT
dc.format.extentP. 180 - 193it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherRoma : Carocciit_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectTanika Guptait_IT
dc.subjectA Doll’s Houseit_IT
dc.subjectRewritingit_IT
dc.subjectAnglo-Indian relationsit_IT
dc.subjectNew Womanit_IT
dc.titleReimagining the New Woman: Tanika Gupta’s adaptation of A Doll’s House (2019) on the London stageit_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalTesti e linguaggiit_IT
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