Performing Identities (eBook, ePUB)

Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts
Redaktion: Devy, G. N.; Chakravarty, K. K.; Davis, Geoffrey V.

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Produktbeschreibung

Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351554619
• Artikelnr.: 49042843

Autorenporträt

G. N. Devy is Founder, Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh, and Founder, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda (Vadodara), Gujarat, India.Geoffrey V. Davis is Chairperson, European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS).K. K. Chakravarty is Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, and Chancellor, National University of Education Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction K.K. Chakravarty. 1. The Hyena Wears Darkness: Stories as
Teaching Tools Pia Thielmann 2. Reading Folktales Juxtapositionally:
Embedded Political Insights and Implied Social Value Systems in Two
Traditional (Khoekhoe And Khasi) Narratives Annie Gagiano 3. Kissa - Heer:
A Gem of Oral Tradition Charu Chitra 4. Magical Rhythms: Psycho-Sexual and
Religious Significance of Tribal Dance Mini John 5. Foregrounding the
Margin: Socio-Cultural Gender-Friendly Traditions of the Lepchas of
North-East India and the Igbos of South-East Nigeria Shreya Bhattacharji 6.
Charting the Multiple Scripts Of Santali: Notes Towards a Visual History of
Adivasi Languages and Literatures Nishaant Choksi 7. Translating Identity
as Lexicon: P.O. Bodding and A Santal Dictionary Ivy Imogene Hansdak 8.
Marginalised Music : A Case Study from Western Orissa/India Lidia Guzy 9.
Storying Sovereignty and 'Sustainable Self-Determination' in Alexis
Wright's Carpentaria and Warwick Thornton's Samson and Delilah Julie
Mullaney 10. The Socio-Political Imperative of Festivals in a Contested
Space: The Examples of the Okiroro (Awan-Okere) and Agbassa Idju Festivals
of Warri, Nigeria Alero Uwawah and Israel Meriomame Wekpe 11. Ogoni Dances,
Masquerades and Worldview Barine Saana Ngaage 12. 'Black Indian' Women and
Blood Rules: Gender, Mixed Race and Hyphenated Hybridities on the Margins
of America Christine Vogt-William 13. Cultural Celebrations of Life:
Rituals of a Hill Tribe Mohan Doss 14. The /Xam Narratives of the Bleek and
Lloyd Collection: Are They Mythology and Do They Belong to the Nineteenth
Century? Michael Wessels 15. Staging the Indian Reserve: Tomson Highway's
The Rez Sisters Cécile Fouache 16. Indigenous Knowledge and Global
Translation: Reconstruction of Australia through Aboriginal Imagination in
Alexis Wright's Carpentaria Sei Kosugi 17. Contesting the Curative Space:
The Politics of Healing in the Narratives of Abanyole Ethnomedical
Practitioners Dishon G. Kweya 18. Conquering Adversity through Art: An
Evaluation of Moranic Performances by the Maasai People of Kenya Joseph
Muleka 19. Women and Indigenous Resistance: In Tess Onwueme's Tell It To
Women and What Mama Said Maureen N. Eke 20. Tracing Post-Colonial Questions
in Ancient Thought Karlheinz Hülser