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As stories of Indian dance's renaissance span almost a full
century, there has emerged a globally dispersed community of Indian
dancers, scholars and audiences who are deeply committed to keeping
these traditions alive and experimenting with traditional dance
languages to grapple with contemporary themes and issues. Scripting
Dance in Contemporary India is an edited volume that contributes to
this field of Indian dance studies. The book engages with multiple
dance forms of India and their representations. The contributions
are eclectic, including writings by both scholars and performers
who share their experiential knowledge. There are four sections in
the book - section I titled, "Representations' has three chapters
that deal with textual representations and illustrations of dance
and dancers, and the significance of those representations in the
present. Section II titled, "Histories in Process" consists of two
chapters that engage with the historiographies of dance forms and
suggest that histories are narratives that are continually created.
In the third section, "Negotiations", the four chapters address the
different ways in which dance is embedded in society, and the
different ways in which the aesthetics of a form has to negotiate
with social, economic and political imperatives. The final section,
"Other Voices/ Other Bodies" brings voices which are outside the
mainstream of dance as 'serious' art.
The word doyennes signifies the various expressions of female,
feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India,
through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women's
Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of
these issues set in the society of Indian culture. Indian women's
literature is still a fertile ground for critical enquiry. There
are three sections in the collection: Section I deals with specific
instances in history, historical constructions, and representations
of gender. Section II offers a varied spectrum of feminist critical
discourse on contemporary Indian women's writing, intersecting with
the frameworks of post-colonial theory, deconstruction,
perspectives on race and ethnicity, and eco-feminism. Section III
touches upon the notion of the woman's body and psyche through the
varied perspectives of psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-feminism.
By thoroughly exploring a range of issues, Contemporary Women's
Writing promises to take the reader by the hand, and journey
through the unfamiliar but refreshing landscape of women's
literature in India.
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