The boundary of laughter

• Verfasst von: De, Aniket [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The boundary of laughter
• Titelzusatz: popular performances across borders in South Asia
• Verf.angabe: Aniket De
• Ausgabe: First edition.
• Verlagsort: New Delhi
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages)
• Illustrationen: illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: This edition previously issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
• ISBN: 978-93-91050-43-6
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780190131494.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Music
• Sach-SW: Society & culture: general
• K10plus-PPN: 1860493939
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, 'The Boundary of Laughter' explores how spaces of popular performance have changed with the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia. The author traces the making of the popular theater form called Gambhira by Hindu and Muslim peasants and laborers in colonial Bengal, and explores the fate of the tradition after the Partition of the region in 1947.