Public women in British India : icons and the urban stage / Rimli Bhattacharya
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TextPublication details: India Routledge Publications 2018Description: 349 pISBN: - 9781138363632
- 792.0954 BHA-R
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BITS Pilani Hyderabad | 790 | General Stack (For lending) | 792.0954 BHA-R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38469 |
This book foregrounds the subjectivity of ‘acting women’ amidst violent debates on femininity and education, livelihood and labour, sexuality and marriage. It looks at the emergence of the stage actress as an artist and an ideological construct at critical phases of performance practice in British India. The focus here is on Calcutta, considered the ‘second city of the Empire’ and a nodal point in global trade circuits. Each chapter offers new ways of conceptualising the actress as a professional, a colonial subject, simultaneously the other and the model of the ‘new woman’. Based on rich archival work, the study further highlights the politics of demarcation and exclusion of social roles.
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