Mimetic Desires : : Impersonation and Guising across South Asia /

Mimetic Desires : : Impersonation and Guising across South Asia / / ed. by Pamela Lothspeich, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath.

Through an exploration of subjects such as Gandhi impersonators, “God-men,” performance artists, and participants in ritual enactments of sacred stories through dance and theatre, Mimetic Desires makes an intervention toward understanding the phenomenon of impersonation and guising in South Asia and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Chandrasekhar, Chaya,
Dutta, Aniruddha,
Freeman, Rich,
Glowski, Janice,
Hoxworth, Kellen,
Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti,
Krishnamurti, Sailaja,
Lothspeich, Pamela,
Nadeem, Shehzad,
Novetzke, Christian Lee,
Pamment, Claire,
Parthan, Shilpa,
Ramaswamy, Sumathi,
Thomas, Rosie,
HerausgeberIn:
Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti,
Lothspeich, Pamela,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.) :; 29 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Public Impersonators GENDER, CASTE, AND SOCIAL ONTOLOGY IN THE MARATHI VERNACULAR MOMENT
  • CHAPTER 2 Racial Impressions, Capital Characters DAVE CARSON BROWNFACES THE EMPIRE
  • CHAPTER 3 Remembering the Hunterwali’s Whip THE GHOSTS OF FEARLESS NADIA AND HER MANY GUISES
  • CHAPTER 4 In Gandhi’s Guise
  • CHAPTER 5 Playing the Yogi THE MAKING OF SWAMI BABA RAMDEV
  • CHAPTER 6 The Freedom to Dance PERFORMANCE AND IMPERSONATION IN LAGAN
  • CHAPTER 7 Mediatizing “Fake” Khwaja Siras THE LIMITS OF IMPERSONATION
  • CHAPTER 8 “We Are Better than the Women” UNDERSTANDING THE POPULARITY OF FEMALE ARTISTS IN KERALA
  • CHAPTER 9 Cosplay, Fandom, and the Fashioning of Identities at Comic Con India
  • CHAPTER 10 Possessed Impersonation DIVINE MIMESIS IN MALABAR
  • CHAPTER 11 Divine Embodiment in the Theatre of Ramlila
  • CHAPTER 12 Resisting Brahminical Patriarchy in Kuchipudi Dance THE STORY OF HALEEM KHAN
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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