Stigmas of the Tamil stage (Record no. 214129)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788170463214
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Classification number 306.4848095482 SEI
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Personal name Seizer, Susan
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Title Stigmas of the Tamil stage
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Calcutta
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Seagull
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2005
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Extent 439p.
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Price amount 750
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Summary, etc. A study of the lives of popular theatre artists, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage is the first<br/>indepth analysis of Special Drama, a genre of performance unique to the southernmost<br/>Indian state of Tamilnadu. Held in towns and villages throughout the region, Special<br/>Drama performances last from 10 p.m. until dawn. There are no theatrical troupes<br/>in Special Drama; individual artists are contracted "specially" for each event. The<br/>first two hours of each performance are filled with the kind of bawdy, improvisational<br/>comedy that is the primary focus of this study; the remaining hours present more<br/>markedly staid dramatic treatments of myth and history. Special Drama artists<br/>themselves are of all ages, castes, and ethnic and religious affiliations; the one<br/>common denominator in their lives is their lower-class status. Artists regularly speak<br/>of how poverty compelled their entrance into the field.<br/>Special Drama is looked down upon by the middle and upper<br/>classes as too popular,<br/>too vulgar, and too “mixed." The artists are stigmatized: people insult them in<br/>public and landlords refuse to rent to them. Stigma falls most heavily, however, on<br/>actresses, who are marked as “public women” by their participation in Special<br/>Drama. As Susan Seizer's sensitive study shows, one of the primary ways<br/>the<br/>performers deal with such stigma is through humour and linguistic play. Their<br/>comedic performances in particular directly address questions of class, culture, and<br/>gender deviations—the very issues that so stigmatize them. Seizer draws on extensive<br/>interviews with performers, sponsors, audience members, and drama agents as well<br/>as on careful readings of live Special Drama performances in considering the<br/>complexities of performers' lives both on stage and off.<br/>"Susan Seizer's moving and unique perspective on the fate of popular cultural<br/>practices in an age and society dominated by the norms and prescriptions of<br/>bourgeois modernity makes her work important and insightful not just for scholars<br/>of South Asia but for all those who are interested in the general problematic of<br/>popular culture, performance traditions, and modernity globally." --SUMATHI<br/>RAMASWAMY, author of The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic<br/>Histories.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Ethnology-India-Tamil Nadu
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