ISBN:
9781503632387
,
9781503634084
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 400 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Naik, Kaustubh The vulgarity of caste 2023
Series Statement:
South Asia in motion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Paik, Shailaja The vulgarity of caste
DDC:
305.48/44095479
Keywords:
Dalit women History 20th century
;
Women entertainers History 20th century
;
Tamasha (Theater) Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Tamasha (Theater) Political aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Vulgarity History 20th century
;
Caste History 20th century
;
Patriarchy History 20th century
;
History
;
Maharashtra
;
Tamasha
;
Dalit
;
Künstlerin
;
Diskriminierung
Abstract:
Introduction : performing precarity : sex-gender-caste/ashlil-manuski-assli -- Policing Dalits and producing tamasha in Maharashtra -- Constructing caste, desire, and danger -- Manuski, Ambedkar, and refashioning Dalits, 1920-1956 -- Singing resistance and rehumanizing poetics-politics, post-1930 -- Claiming authenticity and becoming Marathi, post-1960 -- Forging new futures and measures of humanity.
Abstract:
"Drawing on an extensive archive of Marathi sources, from publications to music to state documents, Shailaja Paik provides a social and intellectual history of Dalit women's stigmatized sexuality in the 20th century and the patriarchal efforts to sanitize it. The Vulgarity of Caste is the first work of South Asian history to examine the vernacular concepts of vulgarity and disgust and the roles they played in developing the socio-political landscape of western India in the 1900s. Paik uses the Dalit theatre performance of Tamasha as a lens through which to analyze the processes and politics of vulgarity, as defined and shared by men in the colonial British government, in the dominant castes, and in the Dalit communities alike. She argues that, although the boundaries of vulgarity are fluid, it works through sexual and social differentiation (including food, language, music, and dance) to actually extend and re-generate caste hierarchy, class inequality, and Dalit subalternity. Her study revolves around Dalit performers she calls "vulgar public women" who negotiated with patriarchal pressure both inside and outside the Dalit community, and bent it to suit their own purposes. With their accounts at the core, Paik traces how a range of dominant social actors facilitated the construction and consolidation of caste patriarchies by attempting to authoritatively define the modern public sphere and regional Marathi identity across the twentieth century"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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