Performing Self Performing Gender Reading The Lives Of Women Performers In Colonial India
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Author |
: Sheetala Bhat |
Publisher |
: Manipal Universal Press |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2017-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789382460596 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9382460594 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Self/Performing Gender: Reading the lives of Women Performers in Colonial India by : Sheetala Bhat
This book explores the shifting identity of the female performer in India, starting from the late 19th century to the early years of independence, through the study of autobiographies and memoirs. It attempts to make visible the actress figure by entering the history of performance, guided by the voice of the female performer. The discussion on performing woman in this book spans across the performing traditions of the tawaif, actresses in public theatre, early Indian film actresses, and actresses in the Indian People’s Theatre and the Prithvi Theatre.
Author |
: Manujendra Kundu |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2024-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192871510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019287151X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh by : Manujendra Kundu
Covering nearly 225 years, this volume tries to capture a broad spectrum of the situation of women performers from Gerasim Lebedeff's time (1795), who are considered to be the first performers in modern Bengali theatre, to today's time. The moot question is whether the role of women as performers evolved down the centuries. Whether this question will lead us to their subjugation to their male counterparts, producers, and directors has been explored here to give readers an understanding of when, where, by whom the politics began, and, by tracing the footprints, we have tried to understand if the politics has changed, or remains unchanged, or metamorphosed with regard to the woman's question in the performance discourse. We have explored, in this regard, how her body, mind, and sexuality interacted with and negotiated the phallocentric hierarchy. The essays included are on (i) Baiji/Tawaif culture in eastern and western Bengal; (ii) prostitute/'fallen' women/ patita, beshya performers; (iii) IPTA and the Naxalbari movement; (iv) group and commercial/professional theatre of Kolkata; (v) women's position in the theatre of Bangladesh; (vi) Cabaret (with an interview with Miss Shefali) (vii) Jatra; (viii) Baul tradition. (ix) Besides, there are chapters on English, Anglo-Indian, Jew, Nachni performers and the illustrious dancer Amala Shankar, and film-music-dance in general.
Author |
: Taryne Jade Taylor |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 1068 |
Release |
: 2023-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000934137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000934136 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms by : Taryne Jade Taylor
The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender, and social justice. This comprehensive overview of the field explores representations of possible futures arising from non-Western cultures and ethnic histories that disrupt the “imperial gaze”. In four parts, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms considers the look of futures from the margins, foregrounding the issues of Indigenous groups, racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities, and any people whose stakes in the global order of envisioning futures are generally constrained due to the mechanics of our contemporary world. The book extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of science fiction and diverse futurisms as a whole. Offering a dynamic mix of approaches and expansive perspectives, this volume will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions into broader contexts.
Author |
: Bishnupriya Dutt |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8132112202 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788132112204 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Engendering Performance by : Bishnupriya Dutt
This is a comprehensive critical history of women performers in Indian theatre and dance of the colonial and postcolonial periods. Its underlying premise is that one cannot evaluate performance in the Indian context without looking at dance and theatre together, unlike the course taken by traditional scholarship.
Author |
: Tim Allender |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2016-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784996369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178499636X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932 by : Tim Allender
This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period of study. Drawing on a rich documentary record from archives in the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North America, Ireland and Australia this book builds a clear picture of the colonial-configured changes that influenced women interacting with the colonial state. In the early nineteenth century the role of some women occupying colonial spaces in India was to provide emotional sustenance to expatriate European males serving away from the moral strictures of Britain. However, powerful colonial statecraft intervened in the middle of the century to racialise these women and give them a new official, moral purpose. Only some females could be teachers, chosen by their race as reliable transmitters of genteel accomplishment codes of European, middle-class femininity. Yet colonial female activism also had impact when pressing against these revised, official gender constructions. New geographies of female medical care outreach emerged. Roman Catholic teaching orders, whose activism was sponsored by piety, sought out other female colonial peripheries, some of which the state was then forced to accommodate. Ultimately the national movement built its own gender thresholds of interchange, ignoring the unproductive colonial learning models for females, infected as these models had become with the broader race, class and gender agendas of a fading raj. This book will appeal to students and academics working on the history of empire and imperialism, gender studies, postcolonial studies and the history of education.
Author |
: Anshu Malhotra |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2015-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822374978 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822374978 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Speaking of the Self by : Anshu Malhotra
Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide range of women&'s autobiographical writing from South Asia. Expanding the definition of what kinds of writing can be considered autobiographical, the contributors analyze everything from poetry, songs, mystical experiences, and diaries to prose, fiction, architecture, and religious treatises. The authors they study are just as diverse: a Mughal princess, an eighteenth-century courtesan from Hyderabad, a nineteenth-century Muslim prostitute in Punjab, a housewife in colonial Bengal, a Muslim Gandhian devotee of Krishna, several female Indian and Pakistani novelists, and two male actors who worked as female impersonators. The contributors find that in these autobiographies the authors construct their gendered selves in relational terms. Throughout, they show how autobiographical writing—in whatever form it takes—provides the means toward more fully understanding the historical, social, and cultural milieu in which the author performs herself and creates her subjectivity. Contributors: Asiya Alam, Afshan Bokhari, Uma Chakravarti, Kathryn Hansen, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Anshu Malhotra, Ritu Menon, Shubhra Ray, Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Sylvia Vatuk
Author |
: Somaya Sami Sabry |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2011-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857731623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857731629 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance by : Somaya Sami Sabry
The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry argues that the Arab-American experience has been powerfully shaped by racial discourse and Orientalism, and is further complicated today by hostility towards Arabs in post-9/11 America. She shows how Arab-American women writers and performers confront and subvert racial stereotypes in this charged context by recasting representations of Sheherazade. Shedding new light on Arab-American women's negotiations of identity, this book will be indispensable for all those interested in the Arab-American world, American ethnic studies and race, as well as diaspora studies, women's studies, literature, cultural studies and performance studies.
Author |
: Zalfa Feghali |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2019-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526134479 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526134470 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crossing borders and queering citizenship by : Zalfa Feghali
Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America.
Author |
: Heidrun Brückner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3447062819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783447062817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between Fame and Shame by : Heidrun Brückner
This book is the outcome of the 3rd International W'urzburg colloquium on India studies titled "changing roles and perceptions of Women performers in Indian culture" held at the University of W'urzburg, Germany, in 2005.
Author |
: Arya Madhavan |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2017-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317422242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317422244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women in Asian Performance by : Arya Madhavan
Women in Asian Performance offers a vital re-assessment of women's contributions to Asian performance traditions, focusing for the first time on their specific historical, cultural and performative contexts. Arya Madhavan brings together leading scholars from across the globe to make an exciting intervention into current debates around femininity and female representation on stage. This collection looks afresh at the often centuries-old aesthetic theories and acting conventions that have informed ideas of gender in Asian performance. It is divided into three parts: erasure – the history of the presence and absence of female bodies on Asian stages; intervention – the politics of female intervention into patriarchal performance genres; reconstruction – the strategies and methods adopted by women in redefining their performance practice. Establishing a radical, culturally specific approach to addressing female performance-making, Women in Asian Performance is a must-read for scholars and students across Asian Studies and Performance Studies.