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Public Women in British India: Icons and the Urban Stage

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This book foregrounds the subjectivity of ‘acting women’ amidst violent debates on femininity and education, livelihood and labour, sexuality and marriage. It looks on the emergence of the stage actress as an artist and an ideological construct at important phases of performance practice in British India. The point of interest here is on Calcutta, regarded as the ‘second city of the Empire’ and a nodal point in global trade circuits.

Each chapter offers new ways of conceptualising the actress as a professional, a colonial subject, concurrently the other and the model of the ‘new woman’. An underlying motif is the playing out of the theory of spiritual salvation, redemption and modernity. Analysing the dynamics in the back of stagecraft and spectacle, the study highlights the politics of demarcation and exclusion of social roles. It presents wealthy archival work from diverse sources, many translated for the primary time.

This book makes a distinctive contribution in intertwining performance studies with literary history and art practices within a cross-cultural framework. Interdisciplinary and innovative, it’ll appeal to scholars and researchers in South Asian theatre and performance studies, history and gender studies.


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