Stigmas of the Tamil stage : an ethnography of Special Drama artists in South India / Susan Seizer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seizer, Susan.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--India--Tamil Nadu.

Ethnology.

Theater--Anthropological aspects--India--Tamil Nadu.

Theater.

Theater and society--India--Tamil Nadu.

Theater and society.

Folklore--Performance--India--Tamil Nadu.

Folklore.

Tamil Nadu (India)--Social life and customs.

Tamil Nadu (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in the larger culture.

Contents:

PART ONE The History and Organization of Special Drama. 1. Legacies of Discourse: Special Drama and Its History. 2. Prestige Hierarchies in Two and Three Dimensions: Drama Notices and the Organization of Special Drama. 3. Discipline in Practice: The Actors Sangam

PART TWO Comedy. 4. The Buffoon's Comedy: Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance. 5. The Buffoon-Dance Duet: Social Space and Gendered Place. 6. The Atipiti Scene: Laughing at Domestic Violence

PART THREE Lives. 7. The Drama Tongue and the Local Eye. 8. The Roadwork of Actresses. 9. Kinship Muai and the Stigma on Actors

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Sangam Rules

Appendix 2: Tamil Transliteration of Buffoon Selvam's Monologue, 1 April 1992.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-431) and index.

ISBN:

9780822386193

0822386194

OCLC:

609198287