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Understanding Theatre
ISBN: PB: 9780857426130, Seagull Books, June 2021
440 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Over the past three decades, theater studies has undergone a radical worldwide development and renewal. This happened through two different yet complementary paths: the first (North American in origin) led to the birth of the discipline of performanc...
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£40,50
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Out of Line and Offline Queer Mobilizations in '90s Eastern India
ISBN: PB: 9780857427434, Seagull Books, June 2020
158 pp., 19x15.2 cm
The 1990s and early 2000s were heady days for Indian queer people and their networks as they emerged from the shadows. They grouped together to deal with covert and overt forms of stigma, discrimination, and violence in different spheres of life. Tra...
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£25,00
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Suspended Passion Interviews
ISBN: PB: 9780857427564, ISBN: HB: 9780857423290, Seagull Books, February 2020
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews – hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession" – offers r...
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Monsoon
ISBN: HB: 9780857426956, Seagull Books, February 2020
176 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
An actor of traditional Hindu dramas meets an adolescent girl who turns out to be his half-sister. A man returns to Goa from Mozambique to father a child for a family whose unmarried daughters has produced no heirs. Another man feels out of place in...
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Soutine's Last Journey
ISBN: HB: 9780857426925, Seagull Books, February 2020
292 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
August 6, 1943. Chaim Soutine, a Jewish painter from Belorussia and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani, and Picasso, is hidden in a hearse that's traveling from a small town on the Loire towards Nazi-occupied Paris. Suffering from a stomach ulcer,...
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Selected Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780857427113, ISBN: HB: 9780857421685, Seagull Books, September 2019
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Friedrich Durrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions,...
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Mirror of the Darkest Night
ISBN: HB: 9780857424396, Seagull Books, March 2019
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
It's the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali Shah – the nawab of Awadh in Lucknow – to Calcutta. To the sound of the soulful melody of the sarangi, the mercurial courtesan Laayl-e Aasman is playing a dangerous game of love, loya...
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Dancing Other
ISBN: HB: 9780857424792, Seagull Books, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Dancing Other" takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in either. Suzanne Dracius tells the story of Rehvana, a woman who feels she is too black to fit in when...
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Crime of Jean Genet
ISBN: HB: 9780857423399, Seagull Books, April 2016
136 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm
Dominique Edde met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence", she writes, "gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated and precise... Genet's movements mimicked...
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Old Women
ISBN: PB: 9788170461449, Seagull Books, November 2014
112 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. "Old Women" te...
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