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题名/责任者:

The dancing poet : Rabindranath Tagore and choreographies of participation / Rimli Bhattacharya.

出版发行项:

New Delhi, India : Tulika Books, 2019.

ISBN:

9789382381983

ISBN:

9382381988

载体形态项:

xvi, 359 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

个人责任者:

Bhattacharya, Rimli, author.

个人名称主题:

Tagore, Rabindranath,-1861-1941-Dramatic production.

论题主题:

Choreography-India.

中图法分类号:

J71

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-340) and index.

摘要附注:

Drawing on a range of visual archives and personal collections, this book casts Rabindranath Tagore as the "Dancing Poet"-in whom the contours of a pan-Indian diversity seek to merge, albeit selectively, with that of the world, eschewing most emphatically the territorial borders of the nation-state while reiterating civilizational strands. The book outlines the contradictions and possibilities in such aspirations, central to the new cultural texts that Tagore seeks to produce in lyric, songs, dance, image, or narrative. These are strategic juxtapositions that may yet yield new insights into our old debates on modernity. Focusing on the first four decades of the twentieth century, the book evokes an international backdrop of Europe, Asia, and the Americas between the World Wars-movements, revolutionary and reactionary, whose thrust is on putting "the people" center stage. It takes as a comparative frame cultural fronts emerging in locations as disparate as Russia, Japan, and Germany alongside movements in colonial India. Overall, it marks a period when experiments are being made to weave together the hitherto exclusive discourses of education, art, and entertainment in self-consciously alternative locales, often with a founding guru at the center of activities. The locus of this work continues to be the performing woman and the creation of new publics. Dance is the great signifier in this exercise. In the idiom of performance-dance, attempts are made to resolve anxieties about the erotic, to sublimate sexuality, and new dimensions explored in multiple modes of physical culture. Masculinities, whose other need not be femininity, figure prominently in these narratives.

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