Introduction: Transnational Revision and Rewriting in Tanika Gupta’s Theatre

• Christiane Schlote

  teaches drama and postcolonial literatures and cultures at the University of Basel. She has published extensively on transnational theories and cultures (especially South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East), contemporary British and anglophone drama, global working-class studies, war and commemoration, migration and refugee discourses, petrofiction, postcolonial cityscapes, and Latina/o American and Asian American culture. She is the author of Bridging Cultures: Latino- und asiatisch-amerikanisches Theater in New York (1997) and co-editor of New Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama (with Peter Zenzinger, 2003), Constructing Media Reality: The New Documentarism (with Eckart Voigts-Virchow, special issue of ZAA, 2008), and Representations of War, Migration and Refugeehood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (with Daniel Rellstab, 2015).

  and Giovanna Buonanno

  is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She is the author of the monograph International Actresses on the Victorian Stage (2002) and co-editor, among others, of Remediating Imagination: Literatures and Cultures in English from the Renaissance to the Postcolonial (2016). She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on intercultural theatre, Black and Asian British literature and theatre, refugee writing, and transnational women’s writing.