{"product_id":"badhai-adnan-hossain-9781350346024","title":"Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia","description":"This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to \u003ci\u003ebadhai\u003c\/i\u003e performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. \u003ci\u003eBadhai\u003c\/i\u003e's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised \u003ci\u003ehijra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ekhwaja sira\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003ci\u003e badhai\u003c\/i\u003e's place-based dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the \u003ci\u003ehijrascape\u003c\/i\u003e. This vital study explores the form's changing status and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial practices, to extend ways of understanding \u003ci\u003ehijra-khwaja\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003esira-trans\u003c\/i\u003e performance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment, Jeff Roy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350346020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350346024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.44d","brand":"Adnan Hossain","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46310999425279,"sku":"9781350346024","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d055f232-422d-4e02-985f-565f4484f482.jpg?v=1730887826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/badhai-adnan-hossain-9781350346024","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}