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Impersonations : the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance
- Title
- Impersonations : the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance / Harshita Mruthinti Kamath.
- Author
- Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, 1982-
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Taking center stage : the poet-saint and the impersonator of Kuchipudi dance history -- 2. "I am Satyabhama" : constructing hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in the Kuchipudi village -- 3. Constructing artifice, interrogating impersonation : Madhavi as Vidūṣaka in village Bhāmākalāpam performance -- 4. Bhāmākalāpam beyond the village : transgressing norms of gender and sexuality in urban and transnational Kuchipudi dance -- 5. Longing to dance : stories of Kuchipudi Brahmin women -- Conclusion: rewriting the script for Kuchipudi dance.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7734
- ISBN
- 9780520301665
- 0520301668
- LCCN
- 2018061418
- 40029256071
- OCLC
- 1055264302
- Author
- Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, 1982- author.
- Title
- Impersonations : the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance / Harshita Mruthinti Kamath.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, 1982- author. Impersonations Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520972230 (DLC) 2019003975
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029256071
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7734