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Enacting New Spatial Contexts: Pan Indian Identity of Female Performers of Seraikela and Mayurbhanj Chhau

Mehta, Gouri Nilakantan

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2004, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
This thesis reports on the participation of women in Chhau, an all male folk theatre form of Seraikela and Mayurbhanj regions of Eastern India. This over-riding presence of women in an all male form, from the 1980s onwards, shows not only revisions in gender roles in performance arts of India, but also resistance to gender norms, which is primarily derived from an altering self-image of female performers. This thesis establishes the spatial interaction between selves of the women performers and others as creating gender fluidity in postcolonial global India. Theoretical analyses from Indian Feminism, Postcolonialism and Globalization have been reflected on the data collected from ethnographic field methods. The thesis establishes the new emerging pan Indian identity of the women in postcolonial India and negates stereotypes and assumptions about Indian woman and social, cultural and aesthetic reality of India.
Ann Elizabeth Dr. Ann Elizabeth Armstrong (Advisor)
112 p.

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  • Mehta, G. N. (2004). Enacting New Spatial Contexts: Pan Indian Identity of Female Performers of Seraikela and Mayurbhanj Chhau [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1091823201

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mehta, Gouri. Enacting New Spatial Contexts: Pan Indian Identity of Female Performers of Seraikela and Mayurbhanj Chhau. 2004. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1091823201.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mehta, Gouri. "Enacting New Spatial Contexts: Pan Indian Identity of Female Performers of Seraikela and Mayurbhanj Chhau." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1091823201

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