1st Edition

Women in Asian Performance Aesthetics and politics

220 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

220 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

220 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Also available as eBook on:

Taylor & Francis eBooks
(Institutional Purchase)Opens in new tab or window

Description

Women in Asian Performance offers a vital re-assessment of women's contributions to Asian performance traditions, focusing for the first time on their specific historical, cultural and performative contexts. Arya Madhavan brings together leading scholars from across the globe to make an exciting intervention into current debates around femininity and female representation on stage. This... Read more

Introduction

Arya Madhavan

PART I, ERASURE

The woman thing: issues and advances for women in Sundanese performance

Kathy Foley

Women in a man’s world: gender and power in Japanese noh theatre

Barbara Geilhorn

"Just like a woman": female impersonation, gender construction and role playing in Begum Barve

Angelie Multani

Feminist Asian cosmopolitanism in Singapore tango clubs

Shzr Ee Tan

Stars on the rise: the jingju actresses in Republican China

Xing Fan

PART II, INTERVENTION

Between roars and tears: towards the female kathakali

Arya Madhavan

"Ruined by several actresses who added lewd elements": the popularity of emerging actresses in Chinese jingju (Beijing opera) and the censorship of two plays

Siyuan Liu

Theatre of Kishida Rio: towards re-signification of "home" for women in Asia

Nobuko Anan

Foreign female interventions in traditional Asian arts: Rebecca Teele and Cristina Formaggia

Margaret Coldiron

An unexpected voice: performance, gender, and protecting tradition in Korean mask dance dramas

CedarBough T. Saeji

PART III, RECONSTRUCTION

Rasatrialogue: the politics of the female body in Asian performance

Sreenath Nair

Nangiar kuthu: interference, intervention and inheritance

Diane Daugherty