47 records matched your query       

Author:

Bhat, Sheetala, author.

Title:

Performing self, performing gender : reading the lives of women performers in colonial India / Sheetala Bhat.

Publisher:

Manipal University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

vi, 139 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Women in the theater--India--History.
Women in the performing arts.
Dance--Social aspects--India.
Theater and society--India.
Women dancers--India.
Women singers--India.
Women--India--Biography.
Actresses.
Dance--Social aspects.
Theater and society.
Women.
Women dancers.
Women in the theater.
Women singers.
India.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-139).

Contents:

"Wandering in the wilderness" : the courtesan's dance of love and shame -- Acting women : performing womanhood in public theatre -- On some "actressy" actresses, and some "non-actressy" actresses in Indian films -- The uncommon commoners : actresses/artists in IPTA and Prithvi Theatre -- Curtain call : revisiting history through Malka Prukhraj's song Sung True.

Summary:

This book revisits the history of performances in colonial India guided by the voice of women performers. It looks at the different ways in which these women frame their performing selves.

ISBN:

9382460594
9789382460596

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1023531157

LCCN:

2017353765

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)