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Bharucha & Richman - Performing the Ramayana Tradition

Catalogue No: 9780197552513
Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments

Product FormatBook
AuthorBharucha & Richman
£36.99
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Pages392
Publication Date30 September 2021
ISBN9780197552513 (0197552511)
EAN9780197552513

    The first-ever comprehensive context-specific reading of Ramayana performance traditions in India
  • Experts in the field draw on primary sources in original Indian languages
  • Serves as a source book on Ramayana narratives and a spectrum of performance traditions in India

The Ramayana, one of the two pre-eminent ancient Hindu epics, has played a foundational role in many aspects of India's arts and social norms. For centuries, people learned this narrative by watching, listening, and participating in enactments of it. The story has continued to be retold and rethought through the centuries in many of India's regional languages, such as Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali, and has provided the basis for enactments in recitation, musical renditions, dance, and avant-garde performances. This volume introduces non-specialists to the Ramayana's major themes and complexities, as well as to the highly nuanced terms in Indian languages used to represent theater and performance.

Contents

  1. Preface and Acknowledgements: The Journey of the Book
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Note on Transliteration
  4. I. Orientations and Beginnings
  5. 1. The Ramayana Narrative Tradition as a Resource for Performance
  6. Paula Richman
  7. 2. Thinking the Ramayana Tradition through Performance
  8. Rustom Bharucha
  9. 3. Where Narrative and Performance Meet: Nepathya's Ramayana Samksepam
  10. Rizio Yohannan
  11. II The Politics of Caste
  12. 4. Shambuk's Severed Head by Omprakash Valmiki
  13. Translation by Aaron Sherraden
  14. 5. Recasting Shambuk in Three Hindi Anti-Caste Dramas
  15. Aaron Sherraden
  16. 6. The Killing of Shambuk: A Retelling from a Director's Perspective
  17. Sudhanva Deshpande
  18. III Interrogating the Anti-Hero
  19. 7. Ravana Center Stage: Origins of Ravana and King of Lanka
  20. Paula Richman
  21. 8. Ravana as Dissident Artist: The Tenth Head and Ravanama
  22. Rustom Bharucha
  23. 8a. Script of The Tenth Head
  24. Vinay Kumar
  25. 8b. Script of Ravanama
  26. Maya Krishna Rao
  27. IV Performing Gender
  28. 9. The Making of RamaRavana: Reflections on Gender, Music, and Staging
  29. Hanne M. de Bruin
  30. 10. Writing Her Self: The Politics of Gender in Nangyarkuttu
  31. Mundoli Narayanan
  32. V Conversations and Arguments
  33. 11. Reflections on Ramayana in Kutiyattam
  34. David Shulman, Margi Madhu Chakyar, Dr. Indu G. with Rustom Bharucha
  35. 12. Questions around Ram Vijay: Sattriya in a Monastic Tradition
  36. Sri Narayan Chandra Goswami with Parasmoni Dutta, Paula Richman,
  37. and Rustom Bharucha
  38. 13. Performing the Argument: Ramayana in Talamaddale
  39. Akshara K.V.
  40. VI Beyond Enactment
  41. 14. Revisiting Being Rama: Playing a God in Changing Times
  42. Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
  43. 15. The Night Before Bhor Arti: Play and Banarasipan in the Ramnagar Ramlila
  44. Bhargav Rani
  45. 16. The Challenges Ahead: Researching the Ramayana Performance Tradition
  46. Rustom Bharucha
  47. Glossary
  48. List of Contributors
  49. Index
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