Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /

Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Soneji, Devesh
Formaat: Printed Book
Gepubliceerd in: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2012.
Reeks:South Asia across the disciplines
Onderwerpen:
Dance
Devadāsīs
Prostitution
Social change
Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.

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