Passages to India: Santha Rama Rau’s Adaptation of E. M. Forster’s Novel for the Stage

Abstract

Questo saggio presenta un’analisi critica dell’adattamento teatrale di A Passage to India ad opera di Santha Rama Rau, una figura largamente ignorata dalla critica postcoloniale. Attraverso un’analisi dello specifico contesto storico e culturale in cui si situa l’adattamento e un close reading del testo in relazione con il romanzo si tratta di far emergere i molteplici “passaggi in India” che lo informano. Il passaggio dal romanzo al teatro è infatti il veicolo intermediale di un passaggio simbolico, all’interno del quale la visione implicitamente eurocentrica del testo di partenza non viene cancellata, ma piuttosto interpretata e ri-creata all’interno di un processo dialogico.

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-102

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