The Boundary of Laughter by Aniket de

The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780190131494)

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The Boundary of Laughter by Aniket de

The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia

$80.00
The Boundary of Laughter by Aniket de

The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia

$80.00
Format: Hardcover
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Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance have changed with the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia. The author traces the making of the popular theater form called Gambhira by Hindu and Muslim peasants and laborers in colonial Bengal, and explores the fate of the tradition after the Partition of the region in 1947. Drawing on a rich and hitherto unexplored archive of Gambhira songs and plays, this book provides a new approach for studying popular performances as shared spaces-that can accommodate peoples across national and religious boundaries.

Author: Aniket de
ISBN-10: 0190131497
ISBN-13: 9780190131494
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2023
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.00w x 1.10d
By Aniket de
By Aniket de
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Aniket De, PhD Scholar, Harvard University

ANIKET DE is a PhD Candidate in history at Harvard
University, USA.

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