Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia

Author:   Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) ,  Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA) ,  Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA) ,  Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350346024


Pages:   210
Publication Date:   30 May 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia


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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.

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Author:   Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) ,  Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA) ,  Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA) ,  Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
ISBN:  

9781350346024


ISBN 10:   1350346020
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   30 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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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