Indian Muslims in Performance: Ethics, History, and the Politics of Belonging
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Jaclyn A. Michael
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Gade, Anna M.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
305
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Davis, Jr., Donald R.; Dharwadker, Aparna; Hansen, Anne R.; Mani, B. Venkat
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-438-77791-0
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Languages and Cultures of Asia
Body granting the degree
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
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2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Indian Muslims in Performance" is an interdisciplinary study of the place of Indian Muslims in national culture, history, and social life through examination of diverse Muslim representations across modern performance genres. India's largest minority community, Muslims have been rendered in scholarship and in popular culture as an anxiety of the nation, as separatist and communal, and as liminal figures dominated by Hindu society and history. Representations of Muslims intervene in how a diverse community is described in modern historiography and known in social discourse as the national "other." Shifting perspective to materials from genres of performance makes visible new claims about Indian Muslim selves, and reframes skepticism of their belonging with evidence of constitutive Muslim relationships in national social, historical, and cultural contexts.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Islamic Studies; Anxiety; Ethics; Cultural differences; Performing arts; Historiography; Politics; South Asian studies; Historical text analysis; Discourse/Text genres; Stereotypes
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Communication and the arts;Social sciences;Indian Islam;Indian history;Performance studies;Religious minorities