Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity /
by Dutt, Bishnupriya; Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar.
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BookPublisher: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; SAGE Publications, 2010Description: xx, 305 p.,[16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9788132104568 (hbk.); 8132104560.Subject(s): Women in the theater -- India | Dance -- Social aspects -- India | Theater and society -- India | Women dancers -- India
Contents:
Actresses of the colonial space: English actresses in India (1789-1842) -- Locating a new space and identity: coming of the Indian actresses (1872-1910) -- The people's actress: a journey to modernity -- Actresses in the jatra space -- Natyasastra: emerging (gender) codes and the woman dancer -- The body and the woman dancer: what she is, or what she is expected to be -- Emergence of the contemporary woman dancer: contribution of Tagore, Shankar, and Ipta -- Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India: commodification of dance and the traditional dancing women.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Actresses of the colonial space: English actresses in India (1789-1842) -- Locating a new space and identity: coming of the Indian actresses (1872-1910) -- The people's actress: a journey to modernity -- Actresses in the jatra space -- Natyasastra: emerging (gender) codes and the woman dancer -- The body and the woman dancer: what she is, or what she is expected to be -- Emergence of the contemporary woman dancer: contribution of Tagore, Shankar, and Ipta -- Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India: commodification of dance and the traditional dancing women.
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