Mimetic Desires: Impersonation and Guising across South Asia, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Pamela Lothspeich
Автор: Aniruddha Dutta, Chaya Chandrasekhar, Christian Lee Novetzke, Claire Pamment, Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Janice Glowski, Kellen Hoxworth, Pamela Loths Название: Mimetic Desires: Impersonation and Guising Across South Asia ISBN: 0824892771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824892777 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Through an exploration of subjects such as Gandhi impersonators, "God-men," performance artists, and participants in ritual enactments of sacred stories through dance and theatre, Mimetic Desires makes an intervention toward understanding the phenomenon of impersonation and guising in South Asia and the world. This volume defines impersonation as the temporary assumption of an identity or guise in performance that is perceived to be not one’s own, regardless of whether this assumption is deliberate, intentional, and conscious or not. Interrogating the legitimacy of the purported dialectic between the "real/original" and "fake/dupe," Mimetic Desires refutes any ordering of identity along the lines of a binary or dichotomy that presupposes the myth of an original identity. Guising captures sartorial and kinetic play more generally. By peeling back the layers of performative masks to reveal the process of the masquerade itself, we can see that those with the most social capital are often those with the most power and opportunities to impersonate "up"—and "down"—social hierarchies. The twelve chapters in Mimetic Desires disclose sites and processes of socio-political power facilitated by normative markers of social status relating to race, ethnicity, gender, caste, class, and religion—and how those markers can be manipulated to express and enhance individual and group power. The first comprehensive study to focus on impersonation in South Asia, Mimetic Desires expands on previous scholarship on impersonation and guising in vernacular theatre, dance, public processions, and religious ritual. It is particularly in conversation with the robust scholarship on gender performance and trans-kothi-hijra engagement in theatrical and dance forms in South Asia. Mimetic Desires explores some of the contexts and forms of impersonation in South Asia, with its remarkable array of performing arts, to gain insight into the very human and quotidian practices of impersonation and guising.
Автор: Oppenheim E. Phillips Название: The Great Impersonation ISBN: 1644391953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644391952 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5668.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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E. Phillips Oppenheim, in full Edward Phillips Oppenheim, (born Oct. 22, 1866, London, Eng.--died Feb. 3, 1946, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, U.K.), internationally popular British author of novels and short stories dealing with international espionage and intrigue.
After leaving school at age 17 to help in his father's leather business, Oppenheim wrote in his spare time. His first novel, Expiation (1886), and subsequent thrillers caught the fancy of a wealthy New York businessman who bought out the leather business at the turn of the century and made Oppenheim a high-salaried director. He was thus freed to devote the major part of his time to writing. The novels, volumes of short stories, and plays that followed, totaling more than 150, were peopled with sophisticated heroes, adventurous spies, and dashing noblemen. Among his well-known works are The Long Arm of Mannister (1910), The Moving Finger (1911), and The Great Impersonation (1920). (britannica.com)
The Great Impersonation is a mystery novel published in 1920. German Leopold von Ragastein meets his doppelganger, Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, and plans to murder him and steal his identity to spy on English high society just prior to World War I. However, doubts of the returned Dominey's true identity begin to arise in this tale of romance, political intrigue, and a (literally) haunting past. (wikipedia.org)
Автор: Richard Fletcher Название: Apuleius` Platonism: The Impersonation of Philosophy ISBN: 1107659116 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107659117 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Apuleius of Madauros (c.AD 120-180), known to us today for his Latin fiction, the Metamorphoses, was also a Platonic philosopher. This book is the first exploration of his idiosyncratic brand of Platonism across his multifarious literary corpus, contributing to the study of the dynamic between literature and philosophy in antiquity.
Описание: The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus` Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the story `in between` Homer`s Iliad and Odyssey, and reveals the aesthetic and identity politics of the era. Important for understanding Homer and epic in Greco-Roman culture.
Автор: E. Phillips Oppenheim, Oppenheim Название: Great impersonation ISBN: 1647996740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781647996741 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3047.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Oppenheim Edward Phillips Название: The Great Impersonation ISBN: 9353442214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353442217 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2242.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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