Performing Pasts
Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2007
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780195690842
- Publish Date
- Dec 2007
- List Price
- $56.95
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Description
This important collection critically interrogates colonialism and nationalism in the context of the 'invention' of South India's performing arts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on the tension between modernity and tradition produced in the context of the metropolitan discourse.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Indira Vishwanathan Peterson is David B.Truman Professor of Asian Studies in the Asian Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College, USA. Davesh Soneji is an Assistant Professor in the South Indian Religions Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Canada.