Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh

Caught up in the Culture of South Asia (1795-2010s)

Buch | Hardcover

354 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-287151-0 (ISBN)

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Covering nearly 225 years, this volume tries to capture a broad spectrum of the situation of women performers from Gerasim Lebedeff's time (1795), who are considered to be the first performers in modern Bengali theatre, to today's time. The moot question is whether the role of women as performers evolved down the centuries. Whether this question will lead us to their subjugation to their male counterparts, producers, and directors has been explored here to give readers an understanding of when, where, by whom the politics began, and, by tracing the footprints, we have tried to understand if the politics has changed, or remains unchanged, or metamorphosed with regard to the woman's question in the performance discourse. We have explored, in this regard, how her body, mind, and sexuality interacted with and negotiated the phallocentric hierarchy.

The essays included are on (i) Baiji/Tawaif culture in eastern and western Bengal; (ii) prostitute/'fallen' women/ patita, beshya performers; (iii) IPTA and the Naxalbari movement; (iv) group and commercial/professional theatre of Kolkata; (v) women's position in the theatre of Bangladesh; (vi) Cabaret (with an interview with Miss Shefali) (vii) Jatra; (viii) Baul tradition. (ix) Besides, there are chapters on English, Anglo-Indian, Jew, Nachni performers and the illustrious dancer Amala Shankar, and film-music-dance in general.

Manujendra Kundu is the Founding Editor of Springer's Book Series titled Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia. The decade-long journalist, who worked for institutions like Anandabazar Patrika and Zee Media, did his PhD on the Third Theatre in Bengal. His book titled So Near, Yet So Far: Badal Sircar's Third Theatre was published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, in 2016. He is an author, editor, playwright, cultural commentator, and analyst who specializes in Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Media Studies, Tagore Studies, and the intellectual history of India.

Manujendra Kundu: Introduction 'Home': The Repository of Polar Play-acting and Challenges of Circularity to Women's Acting out
1: Syed Jamil Ahmed: Footprints of the Outliers: Female Performers in Colonial Eastern Bengal
2: Devajit Bandyopadhyay: The 'Fallen Women' of Culture: An Overview of Bengali Performers from the Dark Chambers of Bengal (1795-1930s)
3: Sumanta Banerjee: Feminine Experiences in the Bengali Stage-From patita to bhadramahila, and to Today's New patita
4: Bishnupriya Dutt: Actresses in a Period of Transition (1947-1952): Connecting Actress Stories with Their Histories
5: Mallarika Sinha Roy: Women in Search of a Play: Theatricality and Gender, From the IPTA to the Naxalbari Movement
6: Kuntal Mukhopadhyay & Manujendra Kundu: Entangled in Performance: Women in Group and Commercial/Professional Theatre in Kolkata (1940s-2000s)
7: Arijita Mukhopadhyay: Labour, Infrastructure, Division of Labour and the Position of the New Generation Women Performers in Kolkata
8: Madhubanti De: Survival, Agency and the Politics of Compromise: The Contemporary Stage and Screen Actresses in Kolkata
9: Samina Luthfa: Can Female Performers be Heard?: Her Stories in Theatre of Bangladesh (1950s-2010s)
10: Aishika Chakraborty: Desire, Decadence and A "Dirty" Dancer: A Conversation with Miss Shefali
11: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi: 'Extending' Uday Shankar's Dance Pedagogy?: Articulation of Agency in Amala Shankar's Work
12: Prabhatkumar Das: Life of Jatra Actresses: Stories of Unending Struggle (1950s-2010s)
13: Sudhir Chakravarti: The Enigmatic World of Sadhansanginis
14: Urmimala Sarkar Munsi: Bonds of Labour: Nachni Women as the Dancer in the Margin
15: Poulomi Das: Poverty to Sustenance: The Respectable/Shameful Journey of Women Performers of Sundarban

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	245 x 223 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-287151-X / 019287151X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-287151-0 / 9780192871510
Zustand	Neuware