The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances across Borders in South Asia
Author:   Aniket De (PhD Scholar, PhD Scholar, Harvard University)
Publisher:   OUP India
ISBN:  

9780190131494


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   10 January 2022
Format:   Hardback
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The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances across Borders in South Asia


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Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance have changed with the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia. The author traces the making of the popular theater form called Gambhira by Hindu and Muslim peasants and laborers in colonial Bengal, and explores the fate of the tradition after the Partition of the region in 1947. Drawing on a rich and hitherto unexplored archive of Gambhira songs and plays, this book provides a new approach for studying popular performances as shared spaces-that can accommodate peoples across national and religious boundaries.

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Author:   Aniket De (PhD Scholar, PhD Scholar, Harvard University)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.374kg
ISBN:  

9780190131494


ISBN 10:   0190131497
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   10 January 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia by Aniket De lays out an intriguing ethnographic and dramaturgical research into the Bengali tradition of Gambhira performance. * Reading Religion *


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ANIKET DE is a PhD Candidate in history at Harvard University, USA.

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