Women’S Voices From History: Gond Rani Durgawati And Rani Lakshmibhai,
2023
Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School
Women’S Voices From History: Gond Rani Durgawati And Rani Lakshmibhai, Nandini Sengupta, Moupia Basu
Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal
Two strong women are compared and contrasted in this article. Gond Rani Durgawati (1524-1564) led a resistance movement in Jabalpur against the Mughal rule of Akbar. Rani Lakshmibai (1828-1858) organized the people of Jhansi against Sir Hugh Rose, an officer defending the interests of the British East India Company. Both women continue to be remembered for their bravery and their loyalty to the people they ruled.
An Examination Of Gandhian Economic And Political Thought And Its Relevance To The Empowerment Of Women,
2023
Hood College
An Examination Of Gandhian Economic And Political Thought And Its Relevance To The Empowerment Of Women, Purnima Mehta Bhatt
Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) sought to alleviate poverty and empower women. His commitment to nonviolence and the economic ideal of “small is beautiful” continue to inspire grassroots movements around the globe. This article discusses the Chipko movement of northern India, the protection of rain forests in Kerala’s Silent Valley, the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), and Medha Patkar’s valiant though ultimately futile attempt to save the Narmada River from a massive government damming project. The ongoing legacy of these movements can be found in AWAG, the Ahmedabad Women’s Action Group and Women’s Shanti Sena (Peace Force).
Identites Of Women In Indian Art And History,
2023
Soka University
Identites Of Women In Indian Art And History, Nalini Rao
Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal
The stereotypical image of Indian women portrayed in the art of stone sculpture is often interpreted as images of beauty that are sensuous, religious as well depict social life. There are historical reasons for depicting her as such. This paper inquires into the changing depiction and social forces that influenced feminine imagery. This paper examines the portrayal of beauty through idealization of female body which has evolved over the centuries in India. It also aims to understand their changing status and explores issues of feminine identity, status, and empowerment largely in ancient and medieval India. It also provides a brief …
Constructing Jain Goddess Padmavātī In Gujarati Literature,
2023
Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School
Constructing Jain Goddess Padmavātī In Gujarati Literature, Venu Mehta
Monsoon: South Asian Studies Association Journal
Worship of the goddess Padmāvatī emerged more than a thousand years ago. This article explores three songs about her in Gujarati by Paṇḍit Vīrvijayajī (1773-1852). By analyzing the style and form of his work, one learns a great deal about devotional liturgies that commemorate goddess Padmāvatī’s protection of the Jina Pārśvanātha and, in turn, his protection of her.
Introduction: Attitudes Toward The Other,
2023
University of Connecticut
Introduction: Attitudes Toward The Other, Matthew Isaac Cohen
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
The use of puppets, objects, masks and cantastorias in various societies around the globe, to represent and stage the Other.
Commedia Dell’Arte: The Mechanisms Of Othering,
2023
University of Connecticut
Commedia Dell’Arte: The Mechanisms Of Othering, Olly Crick
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This chapter proposes that the dramaturgic flexibility within historical Commedia dell’Arte was predicated on a performance methodology that demanded a changing pattern of othering, depending on the class, economic strength and region of their audiences.
How To Signify Otherness And Diasporic Bodies Through Puppetry: Two Plays By Kossi Efoui,
2023
University of Connecticut
How To Signify Otherness And Diasporic Bodies Through Puppetry: Two Plays By Kossi Efoui, Francesca Di Fazio
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
French-speaking writer of Togolese origin Kossi Efoui resorts to puppetry as a means of communicating the diaspora of the African people and the condition of Otherness experienced by a portion of humanity throughout history.
Always Busy Somewhere: Cooper Crafts An Entrée For The Other,
2023
University of Connecticut
Always Busy Somewhere: Cooper Crafts An Entrée For The Other, Paulette Richards
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
African American ventriloquist John W . Cooper toured for a time with Richards and Pringle’s Famous Georgia Minstrels, but did not appear in blackface. Instead he used figures to get audiences to recognize the humanity and agency of a Black man.
Characters Of The Other In Slovak Folk Drama And Czech And Slovak Professional Puppet Theater,
2023
University of Connecticut
Characters Of The Other In Slovak Folk Drama And Czech And Slovak Professional Puppet Theater, Ida Hledikova
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This chapter reflects on and compares depictions of the main heroes in folk theater in Slovakia as well as contemporary Slovak and Czech puppet theater and discusses reasons why the Romany ethnic minority was popular or a focal point of interest.
Alterity In The Arabic And Near Eastern Puppet Theater,
2023
University of Connecticut
Alterity In The Arabic And Near Eastern Puppet Theater, Marvin Carlson
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This essay studies uses of alterity in the medieval plays of Egyptian Ibn Daniyal and selected modern Karagoz plays from Turkey, considering the alterity of the puppet itself and also the social alterities represented by the puppets in these works.
Matter’S “Dark” Powers: Performing Objects And Racialization In Nineteenth-Century American Spiritualism,
2023
University of Connecticut
Matter’S “Dark” Powers: Performing Objects And Racialization In Nineteenth-Century American Spiritualism, Hazel Rickards
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
In this article, I analyze performing objects that were attributed to the agency of Black spirits within the 19th-century American spiritualist movement, exposing how white, female spirit mediums supported and tested a racial metaphysics that assumed white transcendence and Black materiality.
Mamulengo As Cultural Resistance,
2023
University of Connecticut
Mamulengo As Cultural Resistance, Mayumi Ilari
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This chapter, using two recent examples from Brazilian puppet masters, briefly presents the origins of Brazilian puppetry and discusses the way Brazilian mamulengo tradition operates as a means of historical and cultural resistance, while enhancing diversity and racial equality through popular culture and theatre.
Exhibiting Blackface Puppets From The German Imaginary,
2023
University of Connecticut
Exhibiting Blackface Puppets From The German Imaginary, William T.F. Condee
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
German puppet collections face the problem of how—and whether—to display their extensive holdings of blackface puppets that are built on grotesquely racist stereotypes, including the Imagined Turk, the Imagined African, the Imagined African American, and the Imagined Multicultural German.
Ralph Chessé And Forman Brown: When Carving The Other Is Carving The Self,
2023
University of Connecticut
Ralph Chessé And Forman Brown: When Carving The Other Is Carving The Self, Ben Fisler
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This article examines two “closeted” puppeteers, Forman Brown and Ralph Chessé, who demonstrate alterity’s ability to disrupt itself. Their puppets are both exotic (“different from me”) and incorporated (“like me”), as the artists’ hidden racial and sexual identities blur the boundaries between self and other.
Deities Of The Indigenous Snake People In Religious Marionette Plays,
2023
University of Connecticut
Deities Of The Indigenous Snake People In Religious Marionette Plays, Fan Pen Chen
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
This chapter shows how deities of the indigenes of southeastern China competed with and reacted to the invading mainstream Han culture through six sacred string-puppet plays.
When Klana And His Mercenaries Sailed To Java: The Expression Of Otherness In Surakarta Court-Style Wayang Gědhog Performance,
2023
University of Connecticut
When Klana And His Mercenaries Sailed To Java: The Expression Of Otherness In Surakarta Court-Style Wayang Gědhog Performance, Rudy Wiratama
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
Wayang gĕdhog was once a popular puppetry in Javanese courts. Besides of its Panji romance themes, it also has political meanings represented by Sabrang and Jawa figures, which enrich the play and giving it a broader context in Javanese culture.
Puppetry For A Total War: French And German Puppet Plays In World War I,
2023
University of Connecticut
Puppetry For A Total War: French And German Puppet Plays In World War I, Didier Plassard
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
Comparing German, Austrian and French puppet repertoires composed during or in the aftermath of WW1, this paper examines how these productions took part in the “bourrage de cranes” (brainwashing) of public opinions, instilling the hate of other nations in the minds of the youngest.
Sicilian Puppet Theater: Alterity Or Diversity?,
2023
University of Connecticut
Sicilian Puppet Theater: Alterity Or Diversity?, Jo Ann Cavallo
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
From the perspective of alterity, the predominant figure of the Other in Sicilian puppet theater is undoubtedly the Saracen (Muslim) aggressor. Yet the Paladins of France cycle, with its over 300 nightly episodes, is replete with stories that eschew an opposition between an “us” and a “them” and instead underscore our common humanity across borders of all kinds. Indeed, camaraderie, friendship, and even romance can readily develop between individuals from the most disparate corners of the globe. My paper focuses on a selection of examples under the guise of both alterity and diversity, the latter achieved especially through heterogamous marriages.
A Real American Wife, A Japanese Object: Puppetry And The Orient In Minghella’S Madam Butterfly,
2023
University of Connecticut
A Real American Wife, A Japanese Object: Puppetry And The Orient In Minghella’S Madam Butterfly, Tobi Poster-Su
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
In Anthony Minghella’s celebrated 2005 production of Madam Butterfly, three white men manipulate the small, fragile body of Sorrow (Cio-Cio-San/Butterfly’s child), and, in a dream sequence, Cio-Cio-San herself–this paper explores how the production uses puppetry to represent the racialized Other, and how this might subvert, reinforce, or make visible Orientalist views of the East within the source text.
The Western Tourist As Exotic Other: Coping With The Aggressive Ways Of The Casual Stranger,
2023
University of Connecticut
The Western Tourist As Exotic Other: Coping With The Aggressive Ways Of The Casual Stranger, John Emigh
Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects
In the summer of 2004, the author traveled with Prof. Barbara Hatley to see a performance by the Ludruk Karya Budaya troupe of Mojokerto in Eastern Java and while there, the author participated in the performance; this chapter reflects on the minefield of cultural issues involved in their improvised sketch.
