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Autore: | Kamath Harshita Mruthinti |
Titolo: | Impersonations : The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance / / Harshita Mruthinti Kamath |
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 |
ISBN: | 0-520-30166-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910328152803321 |
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