Boekhandel Douwes Den Haag

The Boundary of Laughter

Popular Performances across Borders in South Asia

De, Aniket (PhD Scholar, PhD Scholar, Harvard University)

The Boundary of Laughter

The Boundary of Laughter

Popular Performances across Borders in South Asia

The Boundary of Laughter

 

Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance have changed with the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia.


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Beschrijving The Boundary of Laughter

Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance have changed with the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia. The author traces the making of the popular theater form called Gambhira by Hindu and Muslim peasants and laborers in colonial Bengal, and explores the fate of the tradition after the Partition of the region in 1947. Drawing on a rich and hitherto unexplored archive of Gambhira songs and plays, this book provides a new approach for studying popular performances as shared spaces-that can accommodate peoples across national and religious boundaries.


ISBN
9780190131494
Pagina's
272
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP India

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