The Dancing Poet - Rabindranath Tagore and Modernity in Performance: Rabindranath Tagore and Choreographies of Participation - Hardcover

Bhattacharya, Rimli

 
9789382381983: The Dancing Poet - Rabindranath Tagore and Modernity in Performance: Rabindranath Tagore and Choreographies of Participation
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9382381988 ISBN 13: 9789382381983
Verlag: Tulika Book, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Drawing on a range of visual archives and personal collections, this book casts Rabindranath Tagore as the "Dancing Poet"—in whom the contours of a pan-Indian diversity seek to merge, albeit selectively, with that of the world, eschewing most emphatically the territorial borders of the nation-state while reiterating civilizational strands. The book outlines the contradictions and possibilities in such aspirations, central to the new cultural texts that Tagore seeks to produce in lyric, songs, dance, image, or narrative. These are strategic juxtapositions that may yet yield new insights into our old debates on modernity.

Focusing on the first four decades of the twentieth century, the book evokes an international backdrop of Europe, Asia, and the Americas between the World Wars—movements, revolutionary and reactionary, whose thrust is on putting "the people" center stage. It takes as a comparative frame cultural fronts emerging in locations as disparate as Russia, Japan, and Germany alongside movements in colonial India. Overall, it marks a period when experiments are being made to weave together the hitherto exclusive discourses of education, art, and entertainment in self-consciously alternative locales, often with a founding guru at the center of activities. The locus of this work continues to be the performing woman and the creation of new publics. Dance is the great signifier in this exercise. In the idiom of performance–dance, attempts are made to resolve anxieties about the erotic, to sublimate sexuality, and new dimensions explored in multiple modes of physical culture. Masculinities, whose other need not be femininity, figure prominently in these narratives.

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Rimli Bhattacharya is the author of Binodini Dasi: My Story and My Life as an Actress (1998) and Public Women: Playing the Icon on the Urban Stage (forthcoming) as well as a corpus of translations from Bengali to English.

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Verlag
Tulika Book
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9382381988
ISBN 13 
9789382381983
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
232
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