Performing women/performing womanhood : theatre, politics, and dissent in North India / Nandi Bhatia

By:

Bhatia, Nandi, 1963-

Material type:

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xxviii, 158 pgaes : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0198066937
9780198066934

Subject(s):

Contents:

Constructing the theatre actress -- Argumentative women in domestic spaces -- Independence, partition, and new theatrical imaginings -- From social reform to social protest -- The courtesan as 'virangana' in contemporary historical drama -- 'A window into an elegant and colourful, but almost forgotten world.'

Summary: This book examines diverse modes of dramatic representation and performance-myth, folklore, ritual, and history, including everyday conversation-used by women to intervene in and challenge the agenda of social movements, which conceptualized women's emancipation but imagined their role as being primarily at the core of family life.

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	Main	RTC Library Main opac		Main TEST		792.09 BHA					Available			30011385

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-149) and index

This book examines diverse modes of dramatic representation and performance-myth, folklore, ritual, and history, including everyday conversation-used by women to intervene in and challenge the agenda of social movements, which conceptualized women's emancipation but imagined their role as being primarily at the core of family life.