UID:
almahu_9950012721702882
Format:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520972230
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti Impersonations Berkeley : University of California Press,c2019 ISBN 9780520301665
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
