Present-Day Kutiyattam
G. Venu's Radical and Reactionary Sanskrit Theatre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14997307 |
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| Authors | Christian Ducomb (Christian DuComb is a third-year PhD student in theatre and performance studies at Brown University. After graduating from Haverford College with a BA in English in 2001, Christian spent a year traveling and studying theatre internationally on a fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. His research on how cultural conceptions of performance space mediate relationships between audiences and performers led him to Kerala and his research on kutiyattam. Since 2003, he has cocreated and performed in..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 98-117 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/dram.2007.51.3.98 |
| OpenAlex | W1983836736 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
G. Venu, a scholar and practitioner of kutiyattam, responds to contemporary political conditions in Kerala and draws on the work of India's experimental Theatre of Roots movement in his unexpectedly classical production of Sakuntala. Though imbricated in both the traditional and the avantgarde—creating what Venu aptly calls “present-day kutiyattam”—the question remains: will the project's politics be read to the radical or the revolutionary
Art · Literature · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Sanskrit · History · Law · Social and Economic Development in India
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |