Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd de Claire Pamment

Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd: Palgrave Studies in Comedy

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This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhānd which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings. With irreverent repartee, genealogical prowess, a topsy-turvy play with hierarchies and shape shifting, the low-status bhānd jostles space in otherwise rigid class and caste hierarchies. Tracing these negotiations in both historical and contemporary sites, the author unfolds a dynamic performance mode that travels from the Sanskrit jester and Sufi wise fool, into Muslim royal courts and households, weddings, contemporary carnivalesque and erotic popular Punjabi theatre and satellite television news. Through original historical and ethnographic research, this book brings to life hitherto unexplored territories of Pakistani popular culture and Indo-Muslim performance histories.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137566300
ISBN-10: 1137566302
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: XX, 229 p. 29 illus., 11 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in Comedy

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction.- Part One: Genealogies.- 1.In the Centres and Margins of the Historical Record.- 2.Brahmin Jesters and Sufi Wise Fools.- Part Two: Contemporary Performance.- 3.Wedding Bhānds: ‘From the Donkey Cart to the Aeroplane’.- 4.Bhānds in the Drawing Room: The Popular Punjabi Theatre.- 5.Satellite Bhānds: Playful Outsiders.- Conclusion: Future Moves?

Recenzii

“Claire Pamment’s book Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) is a fantastic new book centered on the Punjabi folk art of the Bhānd, or comic performance. … This lyrically written book on a long-running and hugely important tradition of Islamicate humor will interest much scholars of Islam, South Asia, Anthropology, and Performance Studies.” (SherAli Tareen, New Books network, newbooksnetwork.com, March 15, 2019)

“Claire Pamment’s incisive research on comic performance in Pakistan, with specific reference to the Bhānd, is an invaluable contribution to the scant scholarship on theatre and performance in the country. … This book is immersive for the uninitiated reader, and expands the subject for scholars in the field of performance in Pakistan. A supporting glossary of terms and extensive notes in each chapter illuminate the subject at hand and provide contextual information comprehensively.” (Asma Mundrawala, Theatre Research International, Vol. 43 (3), October, 2018)
“Pamment’s book treats bhānd as a living form, not a relic, with its own future and subversive possibilities that are commensurate with the creative capacity and imagination of performers. Pamment’s book, thus, contributes something important to the ongoing project of drawing the study of theatrical performance out of its Euro-American orbit.” (David Mason, Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 35 (2), 2018)

Notă biografică

Claire Pamment is Assistant Professor of World Theatre in the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance at the College of William and Mary, USA; former Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts Fellow (2015-16), and has taught at various universities in Pakistan. Her articles on South Asian performance, censorship, burlesque, comedy and transgendering have appeared in TDR, Comedy Studies and Asian Theatre Journal. She is Performance Reviews Editor for Ecumenica.

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‘This book shatters preconceptions about Muslim culture as deftly as do the comic performers it describes. Claire Pamment has written a landmark study of Pakistani comedians proving that the bhānd tradition of popular comedy deserves the appreciation and respect granted to Italian Commedia dell'Arte, English Music Hall, and American Vaudeville. Pamment's rich descriptions and penetrating analysis brings these brilliant clowns to life as virtuoso chroniclers of absurdity, past and present.’

– Ron Jenkins, author of Subversive Laughter: The Liberating Power of Comedy

‘Pamment makes an invaluable contribution to South Asian theatre and performance history and to an understanding of the politics of high and low culture.’

– Nandi Bhatia, University of Western Ontario, Canada

‘Defying closure and familiar binaries, this book, like the bhānd tradition itself, celebrates the fluid play betweenHinduism and Sufism, royal courts and the public bazaar, the centre and the margin, the traditional and the contemporary. Pamment’s erudite scholarship is paired with an abiding appreciation for the artfulness and values of the licensed fools it describes. This is a superb addition to our all too limited knowledge of this lively tradition and its legacy, and a wonderful antidote to the now frequently conveyed impression of Islamic cultures as inherently inimical to humour.’

– John Emigh, Brown University, USA

Caracteristici

Challenges still prevalent notions of absence of comedy in Muslim worlds Fills a gap of scholarship on contemporary Pakistani theatre and performance- offering an alternative insights to a geo-political hotspot, from the ground Gives nuance to otherwise monolithic notions of ‘folk forms’ by situating transformations within the bhand tradition

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