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Author Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, 1982- author.

Title Impersonations : the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance / Harshita Mruthinti Kamath.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
©2019.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 vidūṛaka 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.
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Subject Brahmans -- India, South -- Social life and customs.
Brahmans.
South India.
Manners and customs.
Gender identity in dance -- India, South.
Gender identity in dance.
Female impersonators -- India, South -- Social life and customs.
Female impersonators.
Kuchipudi (Dance) -- Social aspects -- India, South.
Kuchipudi (Dance) -- Social aspects.
Kuchipudi (Dance)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Female impersonators.
Other Form: Print version: Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, 1982- author. Impersonations Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520301665 (DLC) 2018061418
ISBN 9780520972230 (Epub)
0520972236
9780520301665 (paperback) (alkaline paper)