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Mimetic Desires - Impersonation and Guising across South Asia (Paperback)
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Mimetic Desires - Impersonation and Guising across South Asia (Paperback)
Series: Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific
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Through an exploration of subjects such as Gandhi impersonators,
performance artists, and ritual participants, Mimetic Desires makes
an intervention toward understanding the phenomenon of
impersonation and guising in South Asia and the world. This volume
defines impersonation as the temporary assumption of an identity or
guise in social and aesthetic performance that is perceived as not
one’s own, and guising as sartorial and kinetic play more
generally. Interrogating the legitimacy of the purported dialectic
between the "real/original" and "fake/dupe," Mimetic Desires
refutes the ordering of identity along the lines of a binary or
dichotomy that presupposes the myth of an original identity. By
peeling back the layers of performative masks to reveal the process
of the masquerade itself, we can see that those with the most
social capital are often those with the most power and
opportunities to impersonate "up" and "down" social hierarchies.
The book’s twelve chapters disclose sites and processes of
sociopolitical power facilitated by normative markers of social
status relating to race, ethnicity, gender, caste, class, and
religion—and how those markers can be manipulated to express and
enhance individual and group power. The first comprehensive study
to focus on impersonation in South Asia, Mimetic Desires expands on
previous scholarship on impersonation and guising in vernacular
theatre, dance, public processions, and religious rituals. It is
particularly in conversation with the robust scholarship on gender
performance in South Asia’s theatrical and dance forms. Mimetic
Desires explores some of the contexts and forms of impersonation in
South Asia, with its remarkable array of performing arts, to gain
insight into the very human and quotidian practices of
impersonation and guising.
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