Engendering performance
Subtitle: Indian women performers in search of an identity
By: Bishnupriya Dutt, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
Contributors: Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar
Publisher: SAGE Publications; SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9788132104568
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Actresses of the colonial space: English actresses in India (1789-1842); title: Locating a new space and identity: coming of the Indian actresses (1872-1910); title: The people's actress: a journey to modernity; title: Actresses in the jatra space; title: Natyasastra: emerging (gender) codes and the woman dancer; title: The body and the woman dancer: what she is, or what she is expected to be; title: Emergence of the contemporary woman dancer: contribution of Tagore, Shankar, and Ipta; title: Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India: commodification of dance and the traditional dancing women.