Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

Impersonations (eBook, ePUB)

The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 (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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mayo Clinic Press
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520972230
• Artikelnr.: 56907941

Autorenporträt

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath is Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Assistant Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature and History at Emory University.