Impersonations

Author : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 25 June 2019

ISBN : 9780520301665

Price : €35.10

Description

Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. 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 (womanâ?Ts 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 inA stri-vesamA 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 boundariesâ?"village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normativeâ?"to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.A 

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