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Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity / Bishnupriya Dutt, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dutt, Bishnupriya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the theater--India.
- Women in the theater.
- Dance--Social aspects--India.
- Dance.
- Theater and society--India.
- Theater and society.
- Women dancers--India.
- Women dancers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Photographs; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I: The Story of the Actress; 1 - Actresses of the Colonial Space; 2 - Locating a New Space and Identity; 3 - The People's Actress; 4 - Actresses in the Jatra Space; Section II: Of the Women Dancer; 5 - Natyasastra; 6 - The Body and the Woman Dancer; 7 - Emergence of the Contemporary Woman Dancer; 8 - Tale of the Professional Woman Dancer in Folk Traditions in India; Conclusion: In Conversation with Samik Bandyopadhyay; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612839726
- 9789385985799
- 9385985795
- 9788132112204
- 8132112202
- 9781282839724
- 1282839721
- 9788132106128
- 8132106121
- OCLC:
- 671601987
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