Impersonations (eBook)

The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (Autor)

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2019
215 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97223-0 (ISBN)

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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. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 20th century • brahmin to non brahmin • Female Characters • Gender Performance • hindu religious narratives • Impersonation • kuchipudi village • localized village performance • male body • Masculinity • Men • practice of impersonation • smarta brahmin • South India • stage • stri vesham • Telugu • transnational indian dance form • village to urban
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97223-6 / 0520972236
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97223-0 / 9780520972230