Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Impersonations: The Artifice of
Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular
community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in
Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam
(woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu
religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender
performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of
power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin
masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the
Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly
on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the
twentieth century from a localized village performance to a
transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of
impersonation across a series of boundaries-village to urban,
Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative-to explore the
artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.
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