Impersonations : : The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance.
Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. 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 ch...
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Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti. Impersonations : The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance. 1st ed. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2019. Ã2019. 1 online resource (241 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. 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. Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. Electronic books. Print version: Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti Impersonations Berkeley : University of California Press,c2019 9780520301665 ProQuest (Firm) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=6984274 Click to View |
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