UID:
edoccha_9959079882902883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) :
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illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).
ISBN:
0-520-30166-8
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Note on Transliteration --
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Introduction --
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1. Taking Center Stage: The Poet-Saint and the Impersonator of Kuchipudi Dance History --
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2. "I am Satyabhama": Constructing Hegemonic Brahmin Masculinity in the Kuchipudi Village --
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3. Constructing Artifice, Interrogating Impersonation: Madhavi as Vidūṣaka in Village Bhāmākalāpam Performance --
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4. Bhāmākalāpam beyond the Village: Transgressing Norms of Gender and Sexuality in Urban and Transnational Kuchipudi Dance --
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5. Longing to Dance: Stories of Kuchipudi Brahmin Women --
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Conclusion: Rewriting the Script for Kuchipudi Dance --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Also available in print form.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780520301665
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520972230
