The Making of Ramayana in the Yakshagana of Coastal Karnataka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20081867 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Purushottama Bilimale (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 316-327 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Multivalence of an Epic (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003456797-22 |
| OpenAlex | W4386067812 |
| ISBN | 9781003456797 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Yakshagana has emerged in the present times as a unique art form and is immensely popular in coastal Karnataka, India, which includes the districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Shimoga, Chikkamagalur, Coorg, and the adjoining areas like Kasaragodu in Kerala State. There are about 36 professional troupes performing more than 400 Rama-centred Yakshaganas per year, and more than 200 amateur troupes perform an average of 400 Ramayana episodes in a year. This chapter illustrates how performances of the Ramayana in Yakshagana are being recreated, redefined, recoded, communicated, and re-appropriated in one of the most popular art form-Yakshagana. The prasanga is a written text of Yakshagana; it contains only poems which are neither divided into scenes nor even into dialogues of the various characters
Geography · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Geology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |