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Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
c2012.
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| Series: | South Asia across the disciplines
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Table of Contents:
- On historical, social, and aesthetic borderlands
- Producing dance in colonial Tanjore
- Whatever happened to the South Indian nautch?: toward a cultural history of salon dance in Madras
- Subterfuges of "respectable" citizenship: marriage and masculinity in the discourse of devadāsā reform
- Historical traces and unfinished subjectivity: remembering devadāsā dance at Viralimalai
- Performing untenable pasts: aesthetics and selfhood in coastal Andhra Pradesh
- Coda: gesturing to devadāsā pasts in today's Chennai.