ISBN:
0822386194
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0822334321
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0822334437
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9780822386193
,
9780822334323
,
9780822334439
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 440 p)
,
ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Stigmas of the Tamil Stage : An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India
DDC:
306.4/848/0954/82
Keywords:
Theater and society
;
Theater Anthropological aspects
;
Folklore Performance
;
Ethnology
;
Tamil Nadu (India) Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in the larger culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliteration; Introduction; Preface: A Conversation on Culture; Birth of This Project; Writing about Special Drama; Methods; Geographic Relations and the Historical Ethnographic Present; Why Comedy Is a Good Site for the Study of Culture; Making a Living; What Is Special Drama?; What Is Special about Special Drama?; Naming Matters; ''Hey Drama People!'': Stigma at Work; ''Actors Have No Murai'': A Proverbial Lack; Part One: The History and Organization of Special Drama; Part Two: Comedy; Part Three: Lives
Description / Table of Contents:
Part One: The History and Organizationof Special Drama1. Legacies of Discourse: Special Drama and Its History; The Legend and Legacy of Sankaradas Swamigal; The History of Special Drama; Tamil Drama History, Stage One (of Undatable Roots); Tamil Drama History, Stage Two; Tamil Drama History, Stage Three; Tamil Drama History, Stage Four; The Disciplined Life of the Drama Company; Life on the Margins of the Companies; Tamil Drama History, Stage Five: A New Historical Trajectory; The Legacy of the Company Model in Special Drama; Discourse of Vulgarity, Legacy of Shame
Description / Table of Contents:
Context: The History of Modernity in TamilnaduDrama Actors Sangams; Why Actors Stand Still: Onstage Movement as the Embodiment of Vulgarity; The Stage Today; From Urban to Rurban; 2. Prestige Hierarchies in Two and Three Dimensions: Drama Noticesand the Organization of Special Drama; Early Drama Notices, 1891-1926; The Photograph Enters Notices, 1926-1936; English in the Vocabulary of Special Drama Artists: Jansirani and Sivakami; Midcentury Notices and Artists, 1942-1964 (M. K. Kamalam); The Current Form of Notices: Roles and Ranks; The Photographic Style of Contemporary Notices
Description / Table of Contents:
The Prestige Hierarchies of Artists as Pictured on Drama NoticesThe Iconicity of the Contemporary Notice: Structured Spaces and Places; Printers and the Circulation of the Contemporary Drama Notice; Drama Sponsorship and the Written Text of the Contemporary Drama Notice; The Working Network That Makes Special Drama Work; The Ritual Calendar of Drama Sponsorship; The Grounds of a Social Economy; 3. Discipline in Practice: The Actors Sangam; Sivakami Winks; . . . and Jansirani Disapproves; Competing Claims: A Matter of Bearing; Internalized Historiography: Artists' Discourses
Description / Table of Contents:
Controlling Bodies and the Control of the BodyDiscipline in Practice; Cross-Roles: Marked Men and Funny Women; Multiple Strategies; PART TWO Comedy; 4. The Buffoon's Comedy: Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance; The Distances Appropriate to Humor; The Buffoon's Comedy Scene; Modernity and Its States of Desire; Layers of Meaning and the Meaning of Layers; The Ambivalence of Laughter: A Final Consideration; 5. The Buffoon-Dance Duet: Social Space and Gendered Place; Mise-en-Scène; The Five Use-Areas and the Five Story Elements of the Duet
Description / Table of Contents:
Architecture of the Stage: Inside, Outside, Behind, Above, and Beyond
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-431) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386193?locatt=mode:legacy
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822386193
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