Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity / Bishnupriya Dutt, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi.

By:

Dutt, Bishnupriya

Contributor(s):

Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi, India ; SAGE Publications, 2010. Thousand Oaks, Calif. ;Description: xx, 305 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9788132104568

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LOC classification:

PN2881.5 .D88 2010

Contents:

Actresses of the colonial space: English actresses in India (1789-1842) -- Locating a new space and identity: coming of the Indian actresses (1872-1910) -- The people`s actress: a journey to modernity -- Actresses in the jatra space -- Natyasastra: emerging (gender) codes and the woman dancer -- The body and the woman dancer: what she is, or what she is expected to be -- Emergence of the contemporary woman dancer: contribution of Tagore, Shankar, and Ipta -- Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India: commodification of dance and the traditional dancing women.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Central Library General Section	792.028082 DUT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005023

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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