Staging Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Performance in Contemporary India

By: Anita Singh

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Synopsis: This book questions how feminist beliefs are enacted within an artistic context. It critically examines the intersection of violence, gender, performance and power through contemporary interventionist performances. The volume explores a host of key themes like feminism and folk epic, community theatre, performance as radical cultural intervention, volatile bodies and celebratory protests. Through analysing performances of theatre stalwarts like Usha Ganguly, Maya Krishna Rao, Sanjoy Ganguly, Shilpi Marwaha and Teejan Bai, the volume discusses the complexities and contradictions of a feminist reading of contemporary performances. A major intervention in the field of feminism and performance, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of gender studies, performance studies, theatre studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, sociology of gender and literature.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 192 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000411706
Related ISBNs:: 9781003020226, 9780367896300, 9780367896331
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 07/16/21
Copyrighted By:: Indian Institute of Advanced Study. The right of Anita Singh to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.