Stigmas of the Tamil Stage : An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India /
A study of the lives of popular theater artists, Stigmas of the Tamil Stageis the first in-depth analysis of Special Drama, a genre of performance unique to the southernmost Indian state of Tamilnadu. Held in towns and villages throughout the region, Special Drama performances last from 10 p.m. unti...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART ONE The history and organization of special drama. 1. Legacies of discourse: special drama and its history. 2. Prestige hierarchies in two and three dimensions: drama notices and the organization of special drama. 3. Discipline in practice: the actors sangam
- PART TWO Comedy. 4. The buffoon's comedy: jokes, gender, and discursive distance. 5. The buffoon-dance duet: social space and gendered place. 6. The Aṭipiṭi scene: laughing at domestic violence
- PART THREE Lives. 7. The drama tongue and the local eye. 8. The roadwork of actresses. 9. Kinship Mur̲ai and the stigma on actors
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1: Sangam rules
- Appendix 2: Tamil transliteration of Buffoon Selvam's monologue, 1 April 1992.