Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced

David Waterman (Université de La Rochelle)

Ed. by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar - Asia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.5: South Asian Diasporic Literature and Culture, 1800-present.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication Jan 2012

Places

United States (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

Ayad Akhtar is a Pakistani-American novelist and playwright, born in 1970 in New York City. His childhood in Milwaukee, growing up as a Pakistani in the upper midwest, became the foundation of a first novel, American Dervish (2012), a story of assimilation raising questions of religion and cultural identity that characterise immigrant communities and their first generation American-born children. These same questions of cultural identity continue to inform much of his work, both in the novels and stage plays.

Akhtar’s first play, Disgraced (2013), premiered at the American Theater Company in Chicago, followed by staging at Lincoln Center Theater in New York. A dinner party consisting of two …

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Citation: Waterman, David. "Disgraced". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 December 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39073, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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