Women Performers as Subjects in Popular Theatres

Tamasha and Nautanki

Bibliographic Data

ID13069965
AuthorsLata Singh (0000-0002-8981-2237, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume4
Issue1
Pages1-24
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Sociology of South Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2230-8075 • E-ISSN: 2249-5312
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/223080751000400101
OpenAlexW2118361613
LanguageEN
Citations received4

The main focus of this article is to forefront women performers as subjects in historiography. Women performers have remained on the margin of both mainstream and subaltern historiography. The article, instead of merely charting their artistic topography, tries to locate them in larger social, cultural and historical context. It tries to map their artistic aspirations and commitment to performance, their journeys and struggles, the troubled histories of their frustrations and endeavours, their strains and tensions as they travelled the varied worlds of the personal and professional. Till date class, caste and patriarchal prejudice marks the Tamasha and Nautanki women performers as vulgar and veiled ‘prostitute’ or ‘loose’ women. The article also moves beyond the paradigm of art and work binary, challenging the middle-class evocation of performance as a temple of art. Invisibilising the women performers as workers forecloses their struggles and contestations

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Evocation · Historiography · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Cinema and Culture

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