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Women performers in Bengal and Bangladesh : caught up in the culture of South Asia (1795-2010s) /

"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 our time. The moot question is whether women's roles as perfo...

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Other Authors: Kundu, Manujendra (Editor), Singh, Lata, 1960- (writer of foreword.), Hosena, Selinā, 1947- (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Women entertainers > India > Bengal > History.
Women entertainers > India > West Bengal > History.
Women entertainers > Bangladesh > History.
Femmes artistes du spectacle > Inde > Bengale-Occidental > Histoire.
Femmes artistes du spectacle > Bangladesh > Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS.
Theater.
Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Women entertainers
Bangladesh
India > Bengal
India > West Bengal
Dance.
Performing Arts.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'Home': The Repository of Polar Play-acting and Challenges of Circularity to Women's Acting Out / Manujendra Kundu
  • Footprints of the 'Outliers': Female Performers in Colonial Eastern Bengal / Syed Jamil Ahmed
  • The 'Fallen Women' of Culture: An Overview of Performers from the Dark Chambers of Bengal (1795-1930s) / Devajit Bandyopadhyay
  • Feminine Experiences in the Bengali Stage: From 'Patita' to Bhadramahila, and to Today's New 'Patita' / Sumanta Banerjee
  • Actresses in a Period of Transition (1947-1952): Connecting Actress Stories with Their Histories / Bishnupriya Dutt
  • Women in Search of a Play: Theatricality and Gender, from the IPTA to the Naxalbari Movement / Mallarika Sinha Roy
  • Entangled in Performance: Women in Group and Commercial/Professional Theatre in Kolkata (1940s-2010s) / Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and Manujendra Kundu
  • Labour, Infrastructure, Division of Labour, and the Position of the New Generation Women Performers in Kolkata / Arijita Mukhopadhyay
  • Survival, Agency, and the Politics of Compromise: Contemporary Stage and Screen Actresses in Kolkata / Madhubanti De
  • Can Female Performers Be Heard? Her Stories in Theatre of Bangladesh (1950s-2010s) / Samina Luthfa
  • Desire, Decadence, and a 'Dirty' Dancer: In Conversation with Miss Shefali / Aishika Chakraborty
  • 'Extending' Uday Shankar's Dance Pedagogy? Articulation of Agency in Amala Shankar's Work / Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
  • Life of Jatra Actresses: Stories of Unending Struggle (1950s-2010s) / Prabhatkumar Das
  • The Enigmatic World of Sadhansanginis / Sudhir Chakravarti
  • Bonds of Labour: Nachni Women as the Dancers in the Margin / Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
  • Poverty to Sustenance: The Respectable-Shameful Journey of Women Performers of Sundarban / Poulomi Das.