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

• Autore: Kamath Harshita Mruthinti
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II