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By:"Binita Mehta"
Published on 2002 by Bucknell University Press
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This book analyzes how French dramatists reproduced certain images of India such as the burning widow, the lowly pariah or untouchable, and the exotic bayadere or dancing girl in four plays and one ballet written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. An examination of these recurrent images demonstrates how the representations intervene politically in French society as well as further the aesthetic agendas of the dramatists themselves. India becomes a spectacle, both literally and figuratively, on the French stage. Addressing questions of Orientalism, the book also argues that it was because the French lost their Indian colonies to the British in the eighteenth century that India became a part of the French literary imagination. Finally, addressing broader questions of intercultural performance and artistic collaborations between non-Western cultures and the West, the book illustrates how, in French print and visual culture, India continues to be described as a land of contrasts, where the exotic and monstrous coexist.
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