Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans performance across borders in South Asia

"This is the first book to provide an introduction to badhai that charts its performance throughout South Asia and examines its characteristics and relationship to the differing contexts of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. With its repertoire of devotional prayers, songs, dances, and comic repa...

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Hauptverfasser: Hossain, Adnan 1979- (VerfasserIn), Pamment, Claire (VerfasserIn), Roy, Jeff (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Meuthen Drama 2023
Schriftenreihe:Forms of drama
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Zusammenfassung:"This is the first book to provide an introduction to badhai that charts its performance throughout South Asia and examines its characteristics and relationship to the differing contexts of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. With its repertoire of devotional prayers, songs, dances, and comic repartee performed by socially marginalized trans feminine hijra and khwaja sira, badhai has long been recognized as vital to these communities' identities. For students of theatre and performance, anthropology, religion, gender and cultural studies, the book illuminates an important form of performance, considering its changing status and uncertain future"--
Beschreibung:xix, 189 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm
ISBN:9781350174535
9781350346024

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