Description |
1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Occupying center stage : impersonation and the classicization of Kuchipudi -- "I am Satyabhama" : constructing hegemonic brahmin masculinity in the Kuchipudi village -- Constructing artifice, interrogating impersonation : Madhavi as vidūṣaka in village Bhamakalapam performance -- Bhamakalapam beyond the village : transgressing norms of gender and sexuality in urban and transnational Kuchipudi dance -- Longing to dance : stories of Kuchipudi brahmin women |
Summary |
"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"--Provided by publisher |
Analysis |
20th century |
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brahmin to non brahmin |
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female characters |
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gender performance |
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hindu religious narratives |
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impersonation |
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kuchipudi village |
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localized village performance |
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male body |
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masculinity |
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men |
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practice of impersonation |
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smarta brahmin |
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south india |
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stage |
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stri vesham |
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telugu |
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transnational indian dance form |
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village to urban |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
Subject |
Brahmans -- India, South -- Social life and customs
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Gender identity in dance -- India, South
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Female impersonators -- India, South -- Social life and customs
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Kuchipudi (Dance) -- Social aspects -- India, South
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Brahmans -- Social life and customs
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Gender identity in dance
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South India
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2019003975 |
ISBN |
9780520972230 |
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0520972236 |
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0520301668 |
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9780520301665 |
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