Performing Disfiguration

A Prologue to Performing Disfiguration: Framing Contexts and Cultural Echoes.- Segment I: Bleeding Bodies on Stage: Punishment, Aesthetic and the Divine.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Ambiguities of the Classical: Blood, Mutilation, and Performance.- Chapter 2: Ritual: Problematizing Real Blood.- Chapter 3: Performing Pain: Correlating Marma and Performance.- Conclusion.- Segment II: Performing Madness: Codified, Divine, Gendered, and Caste-bound Relations.- Introduction.- Chapter 4: Beyond Normal: Performance of Madness and its Ambivalence.- Chapter 5: Madness: Narratives of Chaatthan and Parava.- Chapter 6: Trance and Possession: Ritual Madness and Choreographed Alterations.- Conclusion.- Segment III: Laughter: Performance and Reception.- Introduction.- Chapter 7: Laughter in Classical Performance: Classification and Characterization.- Chapter 8: Laughing Teyyam: Caste, Disability and Gender.- Chapter 9: The Laughing Spectator: A Brief Analysis on Reception.- Conclusion.-  An Epilogue Rooted in Cultural Memory: The Ongoing Journey of Disfiguration.

• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.08.2025
• Autor/Autorin: Akhila Vimal C.
• Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
• Format: E-Book
• Dateiformat: PDF
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• Dateigröße: 18.6 MB
• Verlag: SPRINGER
• Sprache: Englisch
• Umfang: 279 Seiten
• ISBN: 9789819624485
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