Animal entanglements : interspecies performance in South Asia
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Animal Entanglements investigates how performance articulates the ways in which humans and nonhuman animals encounter, transform, and entangle each other. Situated within the context of the resurgence of a nationalist political discourse in India that asserts the importance of certain animals to the Indian social and religious fabric, the dissertation explores how nonhuman animals shape the discourses of religion, caste, class, gender, and sexuality. It queries how animals entangle us in their mythological and material charge, and move us to reconsider normative forms of sociality, subjecthood, and belonging. Drawing upon a capacious understanding of performance that includes political protest, traditional sport, independent film, performance art, and folklore, each chapter considers affective and embodied entanglements that are premised on touching, venerating, consuming, protecting, and imagining animals. My case studies contend that interspecies performance is not limited to practices of intimacy, adoration, and kinship, but also addresses encounters with nonhuman animals that are precarious and contested. Animal Entanglements connects performance to broader questions of religious assertions and state violence; casteist and gendered marginalization; and nationalistic and migrant belonging. In doing so, this dissertation provides critical insights into the ways in which interspecies modes of performance are crucial to the processes of being and becoming in South Asia and its diasporas.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Mehrishi, Rishika |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Menon, Jisha, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Menon, Jisha, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Brody, Jennifer DeVere |
| Thesis advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Robinson, Aileen |
| Degree committee member | Brody, Jennifer DeVere |
| Degree committee member | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Degree committee member | Robinson, Aileen |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Rishika Mehrishi. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/dy083vn8753 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Rishika Mehrishi
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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