Amarjeet Nayak
Biographic Data
| ID | 3973478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amarjeet Nayak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amarjeet |
| FAMILY NAME | Nayak |
| SIGNATURE | NAYAK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Science Education and Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9857-5184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dance as Cultural/Performance Text
This study interrogates Purulia Chhau as a cultural/performance text through the frameworks of cultural labor and theater semiotics. Drawing on Bramha Prakash’s sanskrutik sram, it argues that the laboring body generates value, forging ties to place, memory, and identity. Mythic portrayals of Chhau’s semiotic network—masks, costumes, body language, music, and audience reception—construct authority and meaning while negotiating authenticity, commo…
Cultures of Orality and Performativity in the Performing Art Tradition of Purulia Chhau
Purulia Chhau, a folk, tribal, martial, masked dance-drama form of Eastern India, is performed over generations orally. Having no written performance text available, all the actions of Purulia Chhau, such as gestures, postures, dance movements and so on are materialized through the various performative utterances by the vocalist, who provide the storyline of the Chhau repertoires; musicians, who bring musical tempo into dance movements; and the d…
Ritual, Performance and Spirituality
Ritual, a reflection of human nature, society, and culture, influences various performance traditions as a form of symbolism, a way of communicating and a vehicle of transformation. Additionally, performance as an embodied process characterizes the constitutive of culture signifying the study of man. This integration of ritual and performance is mirrored in the Chaitra Parva or the Spring Festival, celebrated annually in honor of Lord Shiva, invo…
Habit as Restored Behaviour in Purulia Chhau
According to Richard Schechner, the overall time-space sequence of performance is divided into three parts: proto-performance, performance and aftermath. Schechner’s concept of restored behaviour falls under the time-space sequence of proto-performance, which comprises of training, workshop and rehearsal processes. As such, restored behaviour marks previously enacted embodiment and emphasizes the processes of repetition and revision. These behavi…
Dealing with death through circumlocution
Death occupies a pivotal place in J.M. Coetzee’s oeuvre. In this essay, death is situated both as an event and an idea in the Jesus trilogy. It is argued that Coetzee privileges agencies of circumlocution, namely disguise and prettification, in his treatment of death. Emphasis is placed on human as well as non-human deaths in the trilogy. By the deployment of identical agencies for the deaths, Coetzee demonstrates his thrust on vegetarianism and …
Speaking and Speaking Differently
This article undertakes a close reading of Dalit women’s autobiographical narratives to underline the folly of generalizing Dalit women as helpless exploited beings and to explore other important aspects of their lives. It is the intent of this article to explore how Dalit women use specific linguistic expressions as a symbolic way of claiming their distinct identity which in consequence results in an act of resistance against the dominant lingui…
Reading a culturally different text
Chinua Achebe has written extensively on African culture, its mores and the impact of European imperialism on indigenous African societies. His novels garnered worldwide attention and contributed towards the development of the African literature. But his short stories merit equal attention and interest owing not only to the similarity of themes that they share with his novels but also the skilful use of English, a ‘world language’ or an ‘alien la…
The Bilingual Writer Stripped off his Bilingual Identity in Indian Literary Scene
The position of a bilingual writer in India, who writes in English and a regional language, is a problematic one as s/he has a foot each in two literary traditions-Indian Writing in English and Regional Language Literatures. Instead of being seen as a bilingual writer, the market forces see to it that the writer is seen as a monolingual writer in the respective literary tradition. This paper tries to show how packaging of the bilingual writer in …
Speaking and Speaking Differently
This article undertakes a close reading of Dalit women’s autobiographical narratives to underline the folly of generalizing Dalit women as helpless exploited beings and to explore other important aspects of their lives. It is the intent of this article to explore how Dalit women use specific linguistic expressions as a symbolic way of claiming their distinct identity which in consequence results in an act of resistance against the dominant lingui…
The Bilingual Writer Stripped off his Bilingual Identity in Indian Literary Scene
The position of a bilingual writer in India, who writes in English and a regional language, is a problematic one as s/he has a foot each in two literary traditions-Indian Writing in English and Regional Language Literatures. Instead of being seen as a bilingual writer, the market forces see to it that the writer is seen as a monolingual writer in the respective literary tradition. This paper tries to show how packaging of the bilingual writer in …
Reading a culturally different text
Chinua Achebe has written extensively on African culture, its mores and the impact of European imperialism on indigenous African societies. His novels garnered worldwide attention and contributed towards the development of the African literature. But his short stories merit equal attention and interest owing not only to the similarity of themes that they share with his novels but also the skilful use of English, a ‘world language’ or an ‘alien la…
Speaking and Speaking Differently
This article undertakes a close reading of Dalit women’s autobiographical narratives to underline the folly of generalizing Dalit women as helpless exploited beings and to explore other important aspects of their lives. It is the intent of this article to explore how Dalit women use specific linguistic expressions as a symbolic way of claiming their distinct identity which in consequence results in an act of resistance against the dominant lingui…
Habit as Restored Behaviour in Purulia Chhau
According to Richard Schechner, the overall time-space sequence of performance is divided into three parts: proto-performance, performance and aftermath. Schechner’s concept of restored behaviour falls under the time-space sequence of proto-performance, which comprises of training, workshop and rehearsal processes. As such, restored behaviour marks previously enacted embodiment and emphasizes the processes of repetition and revision. These behavi…
Dealing with death through circumlocution
Death occupies a pivotal place in J.M. Coetzee’s oeuvre. In this essay, death is situated both as an event and an idea in the Jesus trilogy. It is argued that Coetzee privileges agencies of circumlocution, namely disguise and prettification, in his treatment of death. Emphasis is placed on human as well as non-human deaths in the trilogy. By the deployment of identical agencies for the deaths, Coetzee demonstrates his thrust on vegetarianism and …
Cultures of Orality and Performativity in the Performing Art Tradition of Purulia Chhau
Purulia Chhau, a folk, tribal, martial, masked dance-drama form of Eastern India, is performed over generations orally. Having no written performance text available, all the actions of Purulia Chhau, such as gestures, postures, dance movements and so on are materialized through the various performative utterances by the vocalist, who provide the storyline of the Chhau repertoires; musicians, who bring musical tempo into dance movements; and the d…
Ritual, Performance and Spirituality
Ritual, a reflection of human nature, society, and culture, influences various performance traditions as a form of symbolism, a way of communicating and a vehicle of transformation. Additionally, performance as an embodied process characterizes the constitutive of culture signifying the study of man. This integration of ritual and performance is mirrored in the Chaitra Parva or the Spring Festival, celebrated annually in honor of Lord Shiva, invo…
Dance as Cultural/Performance Text
This study interrogates Purulia Chhau as a cultural/performance text through the frameworks of cultural labor and theater semiotics. Drawing on Bramha Prakash’s sanskrutik sram, it argues that the laboring body generates value, forging ties to place, memory, and identity. Mythic portrayals of Chhau’s semiotic network—masks, costumes, body language, music, and audience reception—construct authority and meaning while negotiating authenticity, commo…
Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)