Women in Asian performance : aesthetics and politics / edited by Arya Madhavan.

"Women in Asian Performance offers a vital re-examination of women's contributions to Asian performance traditions, focusing on their specific cultural, historical and performative contexts. Arya Madhavan brings together essays from leading scholars across the globe to make an exciting intervention...

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Other Authors: Madhavan, Arya (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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Physical Description:xii, 206 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Erasure -- The woman thing: issues and advances for women in Southeast Asian traditions / Kathy Foley, University of California Santa cruz -- Women in a man's world: gender and power in Japanese Noh theatre / Barbara Geilhorn, Manchester University -- "Just like a woman": female impersonation, gender construction and role playing in Begum Barve / Angelie Multani, IIT Delhi, India -- Feminist Asian cosmopolitanism in Singapore tango clubs / Shzr Ee Tan, Royal Holloway, University of London -- Stars on the rise: the Jingju actresses in Republican China / Xing Fan, University of Toronto -- Intervention -- Between roars and tears: towards the female Kathakali / Arya Madhavan, University of Lincoln -- "Ruined by several actresses who added lewd elements":the popularity of emerging actresses in Chinese Jingju (Beijing opera) and the censorship of two plays / Siyuan Liu, University of British Columbia -- Theatre of Kishida Rio: towards re-signification of "home" for women in Asia / Nobuko Anan, Birkbeck University of London -- Foreign female interventions in traditional Asian arts: Rebecca Teele and Cristina Formaggia -- Margaret Coldiron, East 15 Acting School, University of Essex -- An unexpected voice: performance, gender, and protecting tradition in Korean mask dance dramas / CedarBough T. Saeji, University of British Columbia -- Reconstruction -- Rasa trialogue: the politics of the female body in Asian performance / Sreenath Nair, University of Lincoln -- Nangiar Kuthu: interference, intervention and inheritance / Diane Daugherty, independent scholar -- Women in British Asian theatre / Graham Ley, University of Exeter. 
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