Kanika Batra is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Texas Tech University

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• List of Illustrations Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction: Feminist Visions and Queer Futures Part 1: Jamaica 1: Making Citizens: Community, Kinship, and the National Imaginary in Dennis Scott’s Echo in the Bone (1974) and Dog (1978) 2: "We shouldn’t shame to talk": Postcolonial Sexual Citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective’s Bellywoman Banagarang and QPH Part 2: India 3: A People’s Theatre from Delhi in Alliance with the Women’s Movement 4: Queering the Subaltern: Postcolonial Performativity in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps Around the Fire and Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli’s Rudali Part 3: Nigeria 5: Resistant Citizenship: Reading Feminist Praxis and Democratic Renewal in Nigeria through Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun 6: "Daughters who know the languages of power:" Community, Sexuality, and Postcolonial Development in Tess Onwueme’s Tell it to Women Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Kanika Batra is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Texas Tech University

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• List of Illustrations Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction: Feminist Visions and Queer Futures Part 1: Jamaica 1: Making Citizens: Community, Kinship, and the National Imaginary in Dennis Scott’s Echo in the Bone (1974) and Dog (1978) 2: "We shouldn’t shame to talk": Postcolonial Sexual Citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective’s Bellywoman Banagarang and QPH Part 2: India 3: A People’s Theatre from Delhi in Alliance with the Women’s Movement 4: Queering the Subaltern: Postcolonial Performativity in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps Around the Fire and Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli’s Rudali Part 3: Nigeria 5: Resistant Citizenship: Reading Feminist Praxis and Democratic Renewal in Nigeria through Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun 6: "Daughters who know the languages of power:" Community, Sexuality, and Postcolonial Development in Tess Onwueme’s Tell it to Women Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Kanika Batra is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Texas Tech University

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• List of Illustrations Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction: Feminist Visions and Queer Futures Part 1: Jamaica 1: Making Citizens: Community, Kinship, and the National Imaginary in Dennis Scott’s Echo in the Bone (1974) and Dog (1978) 2: "We shouldn’t shame to talk": Postcolonial Sexual Citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective’s Bellywoman Banagarang and QPH Part 2: India 3: A People’s Theatre from Delhi in Alliance with the Women’s Movement 4: Queering the Subaltern: Postcolonial Performativity in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps Around the Fire and Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli’s Rudali Part 3: Nigeria 5: Resistant Citizenship: Reading Feminist Praxis and Democratic Renewal in Nigeria through Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun 6: "Daughters who know the languages of power:" Community, Sexuality, and Postcolonial Development in Tess Onwueme’s Tell it to Women Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index