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1 online resource |
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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. |
Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
Subject |
Brahmans -- India, South -- Social life and customs.
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Brahmans. |
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South India. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Gender identity in dance -- India, South.
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Gender identity in dance. |
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Female impersonators -- India, South -- Social life and customs.
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Female impersonators. |
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Kuchipudi (Dance) -- Social aspects -- India, South.
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Kuchipudi (Dance) -- Social aspects. |
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Kuchipudi (Dance) |
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Electronic books.
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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) |
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0520972236 |
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9780520301665 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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