Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity / Bishnupriya Dutt, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi.

By:

Dutt, Bishnupriya

Contributor(s):

Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 303 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9788132106128
8132106121

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Engendering performance.DDC classification:

792.02/8082 22

LOC classification:

PN2881.5 .D88 2010eb

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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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