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Bloomsbury Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia (Forms of Drama)

Name: Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia (Forms of Drama)
Brand: Bloomsbury
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This is the first book to provide an introduction to badhai that charts its performance throughout South Asia and examines its characteristics and relationship to the differing contexts of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. With its repertoire of devotional prayers, songs, dances, and comic repartee, performed by socially marginalized trans feminine hijra and khwaja sira, badhai has long been recognized as vital to these communities’ identities. For students of theatre and performance, anthropology, religion, gender and cultural studies, the book illuminates an important form of performance, considering its changing status and uncertain future. Presenting new ethnographic fieldwork from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, the authors examine the ways in which performances are shaped by their contexts and communities and are linked to a variety of sites and events, including protest movements, Dalit solidarity circles, HIV/AIDs NGOS, tax collection, pop music, theatre, and electioneering strategies. They reveal a transformative aesthetic practice that challenges, and sometimes reproduces, the boundaries of caste/class, gender, sexuality, religion, the body, self, community, and nation. The authors consider badhai's changing status, the accusations of extortion and of polluting public space, and the role of casteist, heteronormative, and nationalist agendas in this, even amid the expanding narrative of transgender rights across South Asia in recent years.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 135017453X
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Theatre > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 November 2022
Listed Since: 19 January 2022

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