Summary

In this timely study, Batranbsp;examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries.nbsp;Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice innbsp;bothnbsp;these movementsnbsp;by contesting the idea of the heterosexual, middle class, wage-earning male as the model citizen and bynbsp;suggesting alternative conceptions of citizenship premised on working-class sexual identities. Further, Batra considers the possibility of Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian drama generating a discourse on a rights-bearing conception of citizenship that derives from representations of non-biological, non-generational forms of kinship. Her study is one of the first to examine the ways in whichnbsp;postcolonial dramatists are creating the possibility of a dialogue between cultural activism, women's movements, and an emerging discourse on queer sexualities.