Interrogating modernity, gendering 'tradition
Teatr tales from Goa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3865083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rowena Robinson (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai, 400 076, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 503-539 |
| Publication date | 1999-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/006996679903300302 |
| OpenAlex | W1989549038 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper examines the teatr, a form of popular theatre in contemporary Goa, and the ways in which it engages with the modern, defining and 'fixing', in the same moment, a particular variant of 'tradition'. The plays of this genre revolve around questions of moder nity. In a complex articulation of the realms of the global and the local, modern culture, social mores, politics and economics, tourism and the global media are all represented, queried, even critiqued. Simultaneously, tradition, gender and family relations are viewed as requiring protection from the harmful effects of the modern. Thus, we are offered a par ticularly glorified representation of the 'traditional' Goan woman and her immurement in the family. Scholars studying cinema, theatre and the arts have spoken of similar construc tions elsewhere. Given their pervasiveness, the temptation to read these constructions as constituting a homogeneous dominant ideology are great. However, while the teatrs contain women within tradition, there are ruptures and moments when different ideas and voices surface. The paper argues that these moments are worth holding as traces of alternative, though suppressed, models, and as reminders of what the dominant ideology has to counter in establishing and maintaining its heyemony
Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Epistemology · Hindutva · Ideology · Literature · Media studies · Modernity · Mores · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Sociology · Temptation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2020 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |