Field Notes: Drama Philosophy & Method
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Ch. 6 Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Draupadi’ and the Subaltern as her own Rescuer
In the Mahabaratha epic, Yudhishthira, the Pandava prince and a plural husband of the princess Draupadi,…
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Ch. 5 Art and the existential truth of happiness
A reflection on Albert Camus’ The Rebel For Camus, “man is the only creature who refuses…
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Ch. 4 Storytelling as a humanistic framework
Jean Paul Sartre and his contemporary Albert Camus reflected on what it means to be alive…
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Ch. 3 Who really tells the story?
A good story, when told well, is, as Aristotle asserts in his Poetics, a pleasurable experience.…
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Ch. 2 In the beginning
Once upon a time, and this was a very long time ago, when the world was…
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Ch. 1 Preface
Applied drama and performative action is the telling of the truth in symbolic clothing. This book…