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Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity / Bishnupriya Dutt [and] Urmimala Sarkar Munsi

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi SAGE Publications 2010Description: xx305p.: b&w photos 25cm (Hb)ISBN:
  • 9788132104568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.028082
Contents:
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.
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English Books Central Library Non-fiction 792.028082 DUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available B-428344
English Books Central Library Non-fiction 792.028082 DUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available B-428345
English Books D.B.Act.Division Non-fiction 792.028082 DUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan EN-84979
English Books Sarojini Nagar Non-fiction 792.028082 DUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available B-428346
English Books Shahdara Branch Non-fiction 792.028082 DUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available B-428347

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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