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Stigmas of the Tamil stage: an ethnography of Special Drama artists in South India
Susan Seizer-
Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page xiii)
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Acknowledgments (page xv)
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Notes on Transliteration (page xxi)
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Introduction (page 1)
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PART ONE: The History and Organization of Special Drama
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1. Legacies of Discourse: Special Drama and Its History (page 43)
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2. Prestige Hierarchies in Two and Three Dimensions: Drama Notices and the Organization of Special Drama (page 86)
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3. Discipline in Practice: The Actors Sangam (page 146)
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PART TWO: Comedy
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4. The Buffoon's Comedy: Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance (page 177)
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5. The Buffoon-Dance Duet: Social Space and Gendered Place (page 202)
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6. The Aṭipiṭi Scene: Laughing at Domestic Violence (page 232)
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PART THREE: Lives
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7. The Drama Tongue and the Local Eye (page 277)
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8. The Roadwork of Actresses (page 301)
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9. Kinship Muṟai and the Stigma on Actors (page 334)
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Epilogue (page 365)
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Appendix 1: Sangam Rules (page 375)
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Appendix 2: Tamil Transliteration of Buffoon Selvam's Monologue, 1 April 1992 (page 381)
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Notes (page 385)
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Works Cited (page 417)
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Index (page 433)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JAR | 62.3 (Fall 2006): 414-415 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20371052 |
JRAI | 12.4 (Dec. 2006): 991-993 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00372_32.x/full |
TDR | 50.4 (Winter 2006): 185-186 | http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.185 |
CSSAAME | 26.3 (2006): 521-523 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_studies_of_south_asia_africa_and_the_middle_east/v026/26.3kanaganayakam.html |
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Published: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
- 9780822386193 (ebook)
- 9780822334323 (hardcover)
- 9780822334439 (paper)