Bloomsbury Publishing
Badhai : Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance Across Borders in South Asia
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9781350346024
ISBN13:
9781350346024
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$49.93
Badhai : Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance Across Borders in South Asia
$49.93
This is the first book to provide an introduction to badhai that charts its performance throughout South Asia and examines its characteristics and relationship to the differing contexts of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. With its repertoire of devotional prayers, songs, dances, and comic repartee performed by socially marginalized trans feminine hijra and khwaja sira, badhai has long been recognized as vital to these communities' identities. For students of theatre and performance, anthropology, religion, gender and cultural studies, the book illuminates an important form of performance, considering its changing status and uncertain future--
| Author: Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment, Jeff Roy |
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication Date: May 30, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 211 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1350346020 |
| ISBN-13: 9781350346024 |
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