Kristen Rudisill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen Rudisill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen |
| FAMILY NAME | Rudisill |
| SIGNATURE | RUDISILL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1416-7349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cho Ramasamy’s Cāttiram Coṉṉatillai (The Scriptures Don’t Say So)
Brahmin playwright Cho Ramasamy (1934–2016) is one of Tamilnadu’s most important contemporary playwrights and thinkers. His 1979 Tamil play The Scriptures Don’t Say So (Cāttiram Coṉṉatillai) suggests that caste is located in natural qualities and merit rather than heredity by comically demonstrating the difference between abstract promotion of progressive ideas of intercaste marriage and the actual implementation of those philosophies in one’s ow…
Cho Ramasamy’s Cāttiram Coṉṉatilai (The Scriptures Don’t Say So)
Brahmin playwright Cho Ramasamy (1934–2016) is one of Tamilnadu’s most important contemporary playwrights and thinkers. His 1979 Tamil play The Scriptures Don’t Say So (Cāttiram Coṉṉatilai) suggests that caste is located in natural qualities and merit rather than heredity by comically demonstrating the difference between abstract promotion of progressive ideas of intercaste marriage and the actual implementation of those philosophies in one’s own…
Japanese dancers, Bollywood dance
By sharing the stories of the Japanese Bollywood dancers at the Namaste India Festival in Tokyo, this paper explores their self-developed hierarchy of authenticity to argue that there are multiple ways to claim and access authenticity as it relates to the performance of Bollywood dance. The dance form’s base as global, hybrid, and commercial rejects authenticity as a concept, but its performance by these groups results in meaningful cultural exch…
Brecht in India
Reviewed by: Brecht in India: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Theatre by Dr. Prateek Kristen Rudisill BRECHT IN INDIA: THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF TRANSCULTURAL THEATRE. By Dr. Prateek (sic). Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021; pp. 200. Dr. Prateek's book is a nuanced analysis of Bertolt Brecht's influence in the Hindi belt of India between the 1960s and the '90s. He adds to the existing scholarship on Brecht in India by moving beyond inters…
Pop Empires
Full‐Blooded Desi Romance
In 2009, avid romance reader Sandhya Sridhar quit her job at a newspaper in Chennai, India, and started her own company, Pageturn Publisher, which included the Red Romance Series, to publish English-language novels that she billed as “full-blooded desi romance.” The Sanskrit word desh means “country,” and the word desi, which derives from it, refers today to the people, culture, and products of India and its diasporas. Sridhar's use of the word m…
A traditional Tamil Brahmin marriage in Washington DC
Washingtonil Tiruma am (Marriage in Washington), Cvi's early-1960s Tamil-language novel about wealthy American Mrs. Rockefeller conducting an elaborate Tamil Brahmin marriage in Washington, DC, has been adapted for radio, stage, and television. In this paper, I compare the Washingtonil Tiruma am play to the novel and television serial to argue that the story facilitates the re-constitution and re-negotiation of Tamil Brahmin identity. It appeared…
Bombay Cinema
Japanese dancers, Bollywood dance
By sharing the stories of the Japanese Bollywood dancers at the Namaste India Festival in Tokyo, this paper explores their self-developed hierarchy of authenticity to argue that there are multiple ways to claim and access authenticity as it relates to the performance of Bollywood dance. The dance form’s base as global, hybrid, and commercial rejects authenticity as a concept, but its performance by these groups results in meaningful cultural exch…
A traditional Tamil Brahmin marriage in Washington DC
Washingtonil Tiruma am (Marriage in Washington), Cvi's early-1960s Tamil-language novel about wealthy American Mrs. Rockefeller conducting an elaborate Tamil Brahmin marriage in Washington, DC, has been adapted for radio, stage, and television. In this paper, I compare the Washingtonil Tiruma am play to the novel and television serial to argue that the story facilitates the re-constitution and re-negotiation of Tamil Brahmin identity. It appeared…
Bombay Cinema
Full‐Blooded Desi Romance
In 2009, avid romance reader Sandhya Sridhar quit her job at a newspaper in Chennai, India, and started her own company, Pageturn Publisher, which included the Red Romance Series, to publish English-language novels that she billed as “full-blooded desi romance.” The Sanskrit word desh means “country,” and the word desi, which derives from it, refers today to the people, culture, and products of India and its diasporas. Sridhar's use of the word m…
Pop Empires
Cho Ramasamy’s Cāttiram Coṉṉatillai (The Scriptures Don’t Say So)
Brahmin playwright Cho Ramasamy (1934–2016) is one of Tamilnadu’s most important contemporary playwrights and thinkers. His 1979 Tamil play The Scriptures Don’t Say So (Cāttiram Coṉṉatillai) suggests that caste is located in natural qualities and merit rather than heredity by comically demonstrating the difference between abstract promotion of progressive ideas of intercaste marriage and the actual implementation of those philosophies in one’s ow…
Cho Ramasamy’s Cāttiram Coṉṉatilai (The Scriptures Don’t Say So)
Brahmin playwright Cho Ramasamy (1934–2016) is one of Tamilnadu’s most important contemporary playwrights and thinkers. His 1979 Tamil play The Scriptures Don’t Say So (Cāttiram Coṉṉatilai) suggests that caste is located in natural qualities and merit rather than heredity by comically demonstrating the difference between abstract promotion of progressive ideas of intercaste marriage and the actual implementation of those philosophies in one’s own…
Japanese dancers, Bollywood dance
By sharing the stories of the Japanese Bollywood dancers at the Namaste India Festival in Tokyo, this paper explores their self-developed hierarchy of authenticity to argue that there are multiple ways to claim and access authenticity as it relates to the performance of Bollywood dance. The dance form’s base as global, hybrid, and commercial rejects authenticity as a concept, but its performance by these groups results in meaningful cultural exch…
Brecht in India
Reviewed by: Brecht in India: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Theatre by Dr. Prateek Kristen Rudisill BRECHT IN INDIA: THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF TRANSCULTURAL THEATRE. By Dr. Prateek (sic). Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021; pp. 200. Dr. Prateek's book is a nuanced analysis of Bertolt Brecht's influence in the Hindi belt of India between the 1960s and the '90s. He adds to the existing scholarship on Brecht in India by moving beyond inters…
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