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Performing Pasts

Reinventing the Arts in Modern South India

edited by Indira Vishwanathan Peterson & Davesh Soneji

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2007
Category
General
  • 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.