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Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Adnan Hossain
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By (author) Claire Pamment
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By (author) Jeff Roy
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Series edited by Mr Simon Shepherd
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Series | Forms of Drama |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:176 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Drama |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781350174535
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Classifications | Dewey:792.0954 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
10 bw illus
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Imprint |
Methuen Drama
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Publication Date |
1 December 2022 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation, religion, genre, and identity. This collaboratively authored book draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai's place-based dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans performance.
Author Biography
Adnan Hossain is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Claire Pamment is Associate Professor of World Theatre and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, William & Mary, USA. Jeff Roy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Studies, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.
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