Mimetic Desires
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Mimetic Desires

Impersonation and Guising across South Asia

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Mimetic Desires

Impersonation and Guising across South Asia

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
  3. LIST OF FIGURES
  4. Introduction
  5. CHAPTER 1 Public Impersonators GENDER, CASTE, AND SOCIAL ONTOLOGY IN THE MARATHI VERNACULAR MOMENT
  6. CHAPTER 2 Racial Impressions, Capital Characters DAVE CARSON BROWNFACES THE EMPIRE
  7. CHAPTER 3 Remembering the Hunterwali’s Whip THE GHOSTS OF FEARLESS NADIA AND HER MANY GUISES
  8. CHAPTER 4 In Gandhi’s Guise
  9. CHAPTER 5 Playing the Yogi THE MAKING OF SWAMI BABA RAMDEV
  10. CHAPTER 6 The Freedom to Dance PERFORMANCE AND IMPERSONATION IN LAGAN
  11. CHAPTER 7 Mediatizing “Fake” Khwaja Siras THE LIMITS OF IMPERSONATION
  12. CHAPTER 8 “We Are Better than the Women” UNDERSTANDING THE POPULARITY OF FEMALE ARTISTS IN KERALA
  13. CHAPTER 9 Cosplay, Fandom, and the Fashioning of Identities at Comic Con India
  14. CHAPTER 10 Possessed Impersonation DIVINE MIMESIS IN MALABAR
  15. CHAPTER 11 Divine Embodiment in the Theatre of Ramlila
  16. CHAPTER 12 Resisting Brahminical Patriarchy in Kuchipudi Dance THE STORY OF HALEEM KHAN
  17. CONTRIBUTORS
  18. INDEX