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Badhai - Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia (Hardcover)
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Badhai - Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia (Hardcover)
Series: Forms of Drama
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This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to
badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their
characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in
Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs,
dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially
marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They
commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative
events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular
contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation,
religion, genre, and identity. This collaboratively authored book
draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and
sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and
sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai's place-based
dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the
hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status
and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial
practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans
performance.
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