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Badhai
Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia
Badhai
Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia
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This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, 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.
This 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 badhai's place-based dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans performance.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword, Gayatri Reddy (University of Illinois, USA)
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA), and Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA)
1. Badhai as Dis/ability: Meaning, Context and Community in Bangladesh, Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
2. Shifting Orientations: Vadhai in Pakistan, Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA)
3. Movements Through Badhai Sonic Arrangements in India, Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA)
Further Notes on an Inconclusive Practice..., Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA), and Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA)
Postscript, Kareem Khubchandani (Tufts University, USA)
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Dec 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 176 |
| ISBN | 9781350174535 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Series | Forms of Drama |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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