Performing Women
Theatre, Politics, and Dissent in North India
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 28 October 2010
- ISBN 9780198066934
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 221x147x21 mm
- Weight 400 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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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Performing Women brings visibility to the work of women who performed on the borderlines of dominant theatrical activity and engaged in dramatic enactments that contested middle-class codes of female propriety, which became normalized in the national popular consciousness.
This book recovers, excavates, and remembers the contribution of both neglected as well as known figures in theatre history from north India, in languages which include Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi, and cements their place in the canon of Indian theatre. It examines the 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. The author argues that women's presence on stage and their involvement in theatre--as actors, playwrights, directors, organizers, and characters--made important contributions to the debates on gender and nationalism at particular moments of colonial and postcolonial history.
make[s] a significant contribution to Indian theatre and performance
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Constructing the Theatre Actress
Argumentative Women in Domestic Spaces: The Plays of Rasheed Jahan and Ismat ChughtaiIndependence, Partition, and New Theatrical Imaginings
From Social Reform to Social Protest: Gender and Caste Politics in Kusum Kumar's 'Listen Shefali' (Suno Shefali)
The Courtesan as 'Virangana' in Contemporary Historical Drama: Tripurari Sharma's San Sattavan ka Qissa: Azizum Nisa
Epilogue: 'A Window into an Elegant and Colourful, but Almost Forgotten World'
Index
