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- Title
Women in Indian Puppetry: Negotiating Traditional Roles and New Possibilities.
- Authors
Orenstein, Claudia
- Abstract
As new possibilities open up to women in India's changing economy, women puppeteers are transforming the face of both traditional and contemporary forms of Indian puppetry. An investigation into the work of several prominent women puppeteers, from rural and urban settings, shows the range of challenges these women artists face as well as the important contributions they are making to grow and sustain India's puppetry arts. Claudia Orenstein is an associate professor of theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance. Her other publications include The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation, Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and many articles on puppetry and Asian theatre.
- Subjects
INDIA; WOMEN in the theater; INDIAN women (Asians); PUPPET theater; PUPPETEERS; ORENSTEIN, Claudia
- Publication
Asian Theatre Journal, 2015, Vol 32, Issue 2, p493
- ISSN
0742-5457
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/atj.2015.0049