Performing Disfiguration
Pain, Affect and Staging of Relationalities in Performances
Series: Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia; 3;
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer
- Date of Publication 23 June 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9789819624478
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 Illustrations, black & white; 51 Illustrations, color 700
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Short description:
This book explores the processes of disfiguration in the 'classical' and 'ritual-healing' performances of India, with a particular focus on the rich and diverse performance traditions of Kerala. It examines three modes of disfiguration—'blood,' 'madness,' and 'laughter'—to offer unique insights into how these elements shape the performative body. By drawing on Kerala’s distinctive cultural and ritual contexts, this work provides a deep understanding of the region’s embodied practices. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, the book blends performance studies with detailed ethnographic descriptions to capture the nuances of 'pain' and 'affect.' It challenges and subverts normative notions of performance, offering a fresh lens through which to view these dynamic traditions. This book serves as an invaluable resource for scholars of dance, performance studies, and practitioners seeking to explore the interplay between region, ritual, and disfiguration in Indian performance forms.
MoreLong description:
This book explores the processes of disfiguration in the 'classical' and 'ritual-healing' performances of India, with a particular focus on the rich and diverse performance traditions of Kerala. It examines three modes of disfiguration—'blood,' 'madness,' and 'laughter'—to offer unique insights into how these elements shape the performative body. By drawing on Kerala’s distinctive cultural and ritual contexts, this work provides a deep understanding of the region’s embodied practices. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, the book blends performance studies with detailed ethnographic descriptions to capture the nuances of 'pain' and 'affect.' It challenges and subverts normative notions of performance, offering a fresh lens through which to view these dynamic traditions. This book serves as an invaluable resource for scholars of dance, performance studies, and practitioners seeking to explore the interplay between region, ritual, and disfiguration in Indian performance forms.
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A Prologue to Performing Disfiguration: Framing Contexts and Cultural Echoes.- Segment I: Bleeding Bodies on Stage: Punishment, Aesthetic and the Divine.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Ambiguities of the Classical: Blood, Mutilation, and Performance.- Chapter 2: Ritual: Problematizing Real Blood.- Chapter 3: Performing Pain: Correlating Marma and Performance.- Conclusion.- Segment II: Performing Madness: Codified, Divine, Gendered, and Caste-bound Relations.- Introduction.- Chapter 4: Beyond Normal: Performance of Madness and its Ambivalence.- Chapter 5: Madness: Narratives of Chaatthan and Parava.- Chapter 6: Trance and Possession: Ritual Madness and Choreographed Alterations.- Conclusion.- Segment III: Laughter: Performance and Reception.- Introduction.- Chapter 7: Laughter in Classical Performance: Classification and Characterization.- Chapter 8: Laughing Teyyam: Caste, Disability and Gender.- Chapter 9: The Laughing Spectator: A Brief Analysis on Reception.- Conclusion.- An Epilogue Rooted in Cultural Memory: The Ongoing Journey of Disfiguration.
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