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Impersonations : The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance / / Harshita Mruthinti Kamath



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Autore: Kamath Harshita Mruthinti Visualizza persona
Titolo: Impersonations : The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance / / Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019]
©2019
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)
Disciplina: 306.4/846081109548
Soggetto topico: Brahmans - India, South - Social life and customs
Female impersonators - India, South - Social life and customs
Gender identity in dance - India, South
Kuchipudi (Dance) - Social aspects - India, South
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century
brahmin to non brahmin
female characters
gender performance
hindu religious narratives
impersonation
kuchipudi village
localized village performance
male body
masculinity
men
practice of impersonation
smarta brahmin
south india
stage
stri vesham
telugu
transnational indian dance form
village to urban
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Taking Center Stage: The Poet-Saint and the Impersonator of Kuchipudi Dance History -- 2. "I am Satyabhama": Constructing Hegemonic Brahmin Masculinity in the Kuchipudi Village -- 3. Constructing Artifice, Interrogating Impersonation: Madhavi as Vidūṣaka in Village Bhāmākalāpam Performance -- 4. Bhāmākalāpam beyond the Village: Transgressing Norms of Gender and Sexuality in Urban and Transnational Kuchipudi Dance -- 5. Longing to Dance: Stories of Kuchipudi Brahmin Women -- Conclusion: Rewriting the Script for Kuchipudi Dance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries-village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative-to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.
Titolo autorizzato: Impersonations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-30166-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996312639803316
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