Date – May 31, 2024. 11:30am-1pm. Stanford University Online Webinar via Zoom Guest – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti Event Website Zoom Discussion – In 2023/2024, TAPS Alums produced a number of groundbreaking books in the field. This event celebrates the publication of Gigi Otálvaro’s Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco (University of California Press), Kellen Hoxworth’s Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance (Northwestern University Press), Sukanya Chakrabarti’s In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism (Routledge), and Kari Barclay’s Directing Desire: Intimacy Choreography and Consent in…
In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism – Book Release
Written by Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti. Published November 25, 2022 by Routledge. 248 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations Book Listing on Routledge website Book Description This book examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses. Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical, spiritual, and cultural performances offer ‘joy’…
Review of Indian Drama in English: The Beginnings
Asian Theatre Journal, Volume 39, Number 2, Fall 2022, pp. 428-432, Published by University of Hawai’i Press Dr. Chakrabarti reviews Ananda Lal’s Indian Drama in English: The Beginnings Excerpt: Ananda Lal’s Indian Drama in English: The Beginnings fills a critical lacuna in the study of Indian theatre history while offering insights into the complexities and challenges of archiving book history in an Indian postcolonial context, as Lal notes the “absence of a culture of methodical library acquisition” (p. 9) in his introduction. Contrary to what a disorganized and sparsely recorded…
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In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism – Book Release Written by Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti. Published November 25, 2022 by Routledge. 248 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations Book Description: This book examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses… Project Muse – Review of Indian Drama in English: The Beginnings Asian Theatre Journal, Volume 39, Number 2, Fall 2022, pp. 428-432, Published by University of Hawai’i Press Dr. Chakrabarti reviews…