Engendering performance :
792.028082 DUT
Dutt, Bishnupriya
Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity / Bishnupriya Dutt [and] Urmimala Sarkar Munsi.- New Delhi:SAGE Publications,2010.
xx305p.:b&w photos;25cm (Hb)
content:Actresses of the colonial space: English actresses in India (1789-1842) -- Locating a new space and identity: coming of the Indian actresses (1872-1910) -- The people's actress: a journey to modernity -- Actresses in the jatra space -- Natyasastra: emerging (gender) codes and the woman dancer -- The body and the woman dancer: what she is, or what she is expected to be -- Emergence of the contemporary woman dancer: contribution of Tagore, Shankar, and Ipta -- Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India: commodification of dance and the traditional dancing women.
Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9788132104568 Rs. 995.00
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