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AWEJ for translation & Literary Studies Volume, 1 Number 3, August 2017 Pp.2-21
English Department, Hashemite University
Zarqa-Jordan
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English Department, Hashemite University
Zarqa-Jordan
This article examines how theatre functions as an effective means for exploring an occluded pre-colonial period by constructing an alternative history that refracts the official accounts of colonialist history. Here we study Girish Karnad’s The Dreams of Tipu Sultan (2004), which re-writes the tragic decline of Tipu Sultan who governed the Kingdom of Mysore in the southern parts of India during the last two decades of the eighteenth century. The article concludes that what Karnad wishes to achieve, through this counter-historical theatrical project, is to dismantle the image of the ruthless and unprincipled ‘Other’ propagated by British historians, dramatists, and performers by creating or even recreating an alternative humane and noble character of Tipu Sultan.
Khawaldeh, I. M., & Neimneh, S. S. (2017). Reclaiming the Lost Hero in Girish Karnad’s The Dreams of Tipu Sultan. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies, 1(2).
Dr. Emad M. Khawaldeh is Assistant Professor of English Literature/Drama in the English
Department at Hashemite University, Jordan. He graduated from Ball State University, USA, in
2014. His main research field is postcolonial drama.
Dr. Shadi S. Neimneh is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies in the English
Department at Hashemite University, Jordan, and Vice-Dean of Arts. He graduated from
Oklahoma University, USA, in 2011. His teaching and research interests revolve around modern
literature and literary theory
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