Girls for sale: a play from colonial India = Kanyasulkam
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1. Verfasser: Apparao, Gurujada Venkata (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington Indiana University Press ©2007
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Beschreibung:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Cover; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Girls for Sale; Dramatis Personae; 1. Act One; 2. Act Two; 3. Act Three; 4. Act Four; 5. Act Five; 6. Act Six; 7. Act Seven; The Play in Context: A Second Look at Apparao's Kanyasulkam; Note on Names and Castes; On Kinship and Friendship; Performing Kanyasulkam; Card Game in Act Five, Scene Two; Guide to Pronunciation; Proper Names with Diacritics; Notes
First staged in 1892, the South Indian play Girls for Sale (Kanyasulkam) is considered the greatest modern work of Telugu literature and the first major drama written in an Indian language that critiqued British colonialism's effects on Indian society. Filled with humor, biting social commentary, parody, and masquerade, the plot revolves around a clever courtesan, a young widow, and a very old man who wants to buy as his wife a very young girl. Velcheru Narayana Rao has prepared the first idiomatic Englis
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 226 pages)
ISBN:0253116937
9780253116932

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