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Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

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Description: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¯-ve¯s?am (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¯-ve¯s?am 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. The bookanalyzes 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance. To get started finding Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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¯-ve¯s?am (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¯-ve¯s?am 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. The bookanalyzes 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance. To get started finding Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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