Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India

✍ Scribed by Susan Seizer

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 466
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in the larger culture.

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