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Dancing with the Nation - Courtesans in Bombay Cinema (Hardcover)
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Dancing with the Nation - Courtesans in Bombay Cinema (Hardcover)
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Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts
courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan
characters transmitted Indian classical dance, music and aesthetics
to large audiences. They represent the nation's past, tracing their
heritage to the fourth-century Kamasutra and to nineteenth-century
courtly cultures, but they are also the first group of modern women
in Hindi films. They are working professionals living on their own
or in matrilineal families. Like male protagonists, they travel
widely and develop networks of friends and chosen kin. They have
relations with men outside marriage and become single mothers.
Courtesan films are heroine-oriented and almost every major female
actor has played this role. Challenging received wisdom, Vanita
demonstrates that a larger number of courtesans in Bombay cinema
are Hindu and indeterminate than are Muslim, and that films depict
their culture as hybrid Hindu-Muslim, not Islamicate. Courtesans
speak in the ambiguous voice of the modern nation, inviting
spectators to seize pleasure here and now but also to search for
the meaning of life. Vanita's groundbreaking study of courtesans
and courtesan imagery in 235 films brings fresh evidence to show
that the courtesan figure shapes the modern Indian erotic,
political and religious imagination.
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