PERFORMING THE RAMAYANA TRADITION: ENACTMENTS, INTERPRETATIONS, AND ARGUMENTS

The section culminates with Rizio Yohannan's essay "Where Narrative and Performance Meet: Nepathya's Ramayana Sa ksepam^ This essay does double duty: it demonstrates how the categories of text and performance collapse into one another in the case study of the South Indian performance...

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Published in:Asian theatre journal 2024, Vol.41 (1), p.228-231
Main Author: Culp, Amanda
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Avant-garde
Case studies
Essays
Gender
Innovations
Mythology
Narratives
Sacred texts
Theater
Traditions
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Summary:The section culminates with Rizio Yohannan's essay "Where Narrative and Performance Meet: Nepathya's Ramayana Sa ksepam^ This essay does double duty: it demonstrates how the categories of text and performance collapse into one another in the case study of the South Indian performance tradition of kutiyattam; at the same time, it introduces the framework of the epic's narrative to an unfamiliar reader. In "Ravana Center Stage: Origins of Ravana and King of Lanka," Richman juxtaposes a Kathakali performance from the eighteenth century with a Tamil mythological play from the mid-twentieth to argue for a complex history of interest in and innovation with the purported anti-hero of the epic narrative. According to a helpful list that Richman and Bharucha include at the book's end, the essays cover an impressive twenty-five discrete performance traditions originating from all across the Indian subcontinent ranging from popular to regional to religious to political.
ISSN:0742-5457
1527-2109