Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh: Caught up in the Culture of South Asia (1795-2010s)

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Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘Home’: The Repository of Polar Play-​acting and Challenges of Circularity to Women’s Acting Out
1. Footprints of the ‘Outliers’: Female Performers in Colonial Eastern Bengal
2. The ‘Fallen Women’ of Culture: An Overview of Performers from the Dark Chambers of Bengal (1795–​1930s)
3. Feminine Experiences in the Bengali Stage: From ‘Patita’  to Bhadramahila, and to Today’s New ‘Patita’
4. Actresses in a Period of Transition (1947–​1952):  Connecting Actress Stories with Their Histories
5. Women in Search of a Play: Theatricality and Gender,  from the IPTA to the Naxalbari Movement
6. Entangled in Performance: Women in Group and Commercial/​Professional Theatre in Kolkata (1940s–​2010s)
7. Labour, Infrastructure, Division of Labour, and the Position of the New Generation Women Performers in Kolkata
8. Survival, Agency, and the Politics of Compromise: Contemporary Stage and Screen Actresses in Kolkata Madhubanti De
9. Can Female Performers Be Heard? Her Stories in  Theatre of Bangladesh (1950s–​2010s)
10. Desire, Decadence, and a ‘Dirty’ Dancer:  In Conversation with Miss Shefali
11. ‘Extending’ Uday Shankar’s Dance Pedagogy? Articulation of Agency in Amala Shankar’s Work
12. Life of Jatra Actresses: Stories of Unending Struggle  (1950s–​2010s)
13. The Enigmatic World of Sadhansanginis
14. Bonds of Labour: Nachni Women as the Dancers in  the Margin
15. Poverty to Sustenance: The Respectable–​Shameful  Journey of Women Performers of Sundarban
Notes on Contributors
Index