Author: Arjuna-SiṃhaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Urjoon Sing, or, The princess regained, an Indian drama
Author: Arjuna-SiṃhaUrjoon Sing, Or, the Princess Regained
Author: P. V. Ramaswami RajuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic drama (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Audacious Raconteur
Author: Leela PrasadPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501752286
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire? Studying closely the oral narrations and writings of four Indian authors in colonial India, The Audacious Raconteur argues that even the most hegemonic circumstances cannot suppress "audacious raconteurs": skilled storytellers who fashion narrative spaces that allow themselves to remain sovereign and beyond subjugation. By drawing attention to the vigorous orality, maverick use of photography, literary ventriloquism, and bilingualism in the narratives of these raconteurs, Leela Prasad shows how the ideological bulwark of colonialism—formed by concepts of colonial modernity, history, science, and native knowledge—is dismantled. Audacious raconteurs wrest back meanings of religion, culture, and history that are closer to their lived understandings. The figure of the audacious raconteur does not only hover in an archive but suffuses everyday life. Underlying these ideas, Prasad's personal interactions with the narrators' descendants give weight to her innovative argument that the audacious raconteur is a necessary ethical and artistic figure in human experience. Thanks to generous funding from Duke University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office: pt. 1 . Classed catalogue. 1888. pt. 2 . Index. 1888. Supplement. 1895. Supplement 2. 1895-1909
Author: India Office LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Author-catalogue of printed books in European languages. With a supplementary list of newspapers. 1904. 2 v
Author: Imperial Library, CalcuttaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Catalogue of Books on the Languages of Asia, Australia, Africa, Turkey, Etc., Etc., on Sale by Luzac and Co. ...
Author: Luzac & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Celluloid Classicism
Author: Hari KrishnanPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819578886
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Winner of De La Torre Bueno First Book Special Citation, given by DSA, 2021 Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance. It addresses representations of dance in the cinema from an interdisciplinary, critical-historical perspective. The intertwined and symbiotic histories of these forms have never received serious scholarly attention. For the most part, historians of South Indian cinema have noted the presence of song and dance sequences in films, but have not historicized them with reference to the simultaneous revival of dance culture among the middle-class in this region. In a parallel manner, historians of dance have excluded deliberations on the influence of cinema in the making of the "classical" forms of modern India. Although the book primarily focuses on the period between the late 1920s and 1950s, it also addresses the persistence of these mid-twentieth century cultural developments into the present. The book rethinks the history of Bharatanatyam in the twentieth century from an interdisciplinary, transmedia standpoint and features 130 archival images.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
South Asian Folklore in Transition
Author: Frank J. KoromPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429753810
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Indian Subcontinent has been at the centre of folklore inquiry since the 19th century, yet, while much attention was paid to India by early scholars, folkloristic interest in the region waned over time until it virtually disappeared from the research agendas of scholars working in the discipline of folklore and folklife. This fortunately changed in the 1980s when a newly energized group of younger scholars, who were interested in a variety of new approaches that went beyond the textual interface, returned to folklore as an untapped resource in South Asian Studies. This comprehensive volume further reinvigorates the field by providing fresh studies and new models both for studying the “lore” and the “life” of everyday people in the region, as well as their engagement with the world at large. By bringing Muslims, material culture, diasporic horizons, global interventions and politics to bear on South Asian folklore studies, the authors hope to stimulate more dialogue across theoretical and geographical borders to infuse the study of the Indian Subcontinent’s cultural traditions with a new sense of relevance that will be of interest not only to areal specialists but also to folklorists and anthropologists in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.