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ISBN 10: 0192699350
ISBN 13: 9780192699350
Author: Manujendra Kundu
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.
Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh 1st Table of contents:
Introduction: ‘Home’: The Repository of Polar Play-acting and Challenges of Circularity to Women’s Acting Out
1. Footprints of the ‘Outliers’: Female Performers in Colonial Eastern Bengal
2. The ‘Fallen Women’ of Culture: An Overview of Performers from the Dark Chambers of Bengal (1795–1930s)
3. Feminine Experiences in the Bengali Stage: From ‘Patita’ to Bhadramahila, and to Today’s New ‘Patita’
4. Actresses in a Period of Transition (1947–1952): Connecting Actress Stories with Their Histories
5. Women in Search of a Play: Theatricality and Gender, from the IPTA to the Naxalbari Movement
6. Entangled in Performance: Women in Group and Commercial/Professional Theatre in Kolkata (1940s–2010s)
7. Labour, Infrastructure, Division of Labour, and the Position of the New Generation Women Performers in Kolkata
8. Survival, Agency, and the Politics of Compromise: Contemporary Stage and Screen Actresses in Kolkata
9. Can Female Performers Be Heard? Her Stories in Theatre of Bangladesh (1950s–2010s)
10. Desire, Decadence, and a ‘Dirty’ Dancer: In Conversation with Miss Shefali
11. ‘Extending’ Uday Shankar’s Dance Pedagogy? Articulation of Agency in Amala Shankar’s Work
12. Life of Jatra Actresses: Stories of Unending Struggle (1950s–2010s)
13. The Enigmatic World of Sadhansanginis
14. Bonds of Labour: Nachni Women as the Dancers in the Margin
15. Poverty to Sustenance: The Respectable–Shameful Journey of Women Performers of Sundarban
Notes on Contributors
Index
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