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Stigmas of the Tamil stage: an ethnography of Special Drama artists in South India

Susan Seizer
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xiii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • Notes on Transliteration (page xxi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART ONE: The History and Organization of Special Drama
    • 1. Legacies of Discourse: Special Drama and Its History (page 43)
    • 2. Prestige Hierarchies in Two and Three Dimensions: Drama Notices and the Organization of Special Drama (page 86)
    • 3. Discipline in Practice: The Actors Sangam (page 146)
  • PART TWO: Comedy
    • 4. The Buffoon's Comedy: Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance (page 177)
    • 5. The Buffoon-Dance Duet: Social Space and Gendered Place (page 202)
    • 6. The Aṭipiṭi Scene: Laughing at Domestic Violence (page 232)
  • PART THREE: Lives
    • 7. The Drama Tongue and the Local Eye (page 277)
    • 8. The Roadwork of Actresses (page 301)
    • 9. Kinship Muṟai and the Stigma on Actors (page 334)
  • Epilogue (page 365)
  • Appendix 1: Sangam Rules (page 375)
  • Appendix 2: Tamil Transliteration of Buffoon Selvam's Monologue, 1 April 1992 (page 381)
  • Notes (page 385)
  • Works Cited (page 417)
  • Index (page 433)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAR 62.3 (Fall 2006): 414-415 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20371052
JRAI 12.4 (Dec. 2006): 991-993 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00372_32.x/full
TDR 50.4 (Winter 2006): 185-186 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.185
CSSAAME 26.3 (2006): 521-523 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_studies_of_south_asia_africa_and_the_middle_east/v026/26.3kanaganayakam.html
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Published: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780822386193 (ebook)
  • 9780822334323 (hardcover)
  • 9780822334439 (paper)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Asian: South and Southeast
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