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Public Women in British India: Icons and the Urban Stage

Public Women in British India: Icons and the Urban Stage

Rimli Bhattacharya
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This book foregrounds the subjectivity of ‘acting women’ amidst violent debates on femininity and education, livelihood and labour, sexuality and marriage. It looks at the emergence of the stage actress as an artist and an ideological construct at critical phases of performance practice in British India. The focus here is on Calcutta, considered the ‘second city of the Empire’ and a nodal point in global trade circuits.

Each chapter offers new ways of conceptualising the actress as a professional, a colonial subject, simultaneously the other and the model of the ‘new woman’. An underlying motif is the playing out of the idea of spiritual salvation, redemption and modernity. Analysing the dynamics behind stagecraft and spectacle, the study highlights the politics of demarcation and exclusion of social roles. It presents rich archival work from diverse sources, many translated for the first time.

This book makes a distinctive contribution in intertwining performance studies with literary history and art practices within a cross-cultural framework. Interdisciplinary and innovative, it will appeal to scholars and researchers in South Asian theatre and performance studies, history and gender studies.

Jahr:
2018
Auflage:
Verlag:
Routledge India
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
370
ISBN 10:
1138282553
ISBN 13:
9781138282551
Datei:
PDF, 24.22 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2018
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