Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd
Claire Pamment
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Description for Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd
hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy. Num Pages: 230 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKP; ASZB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Comedy
Number of Pages
229
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137566300
SKU
V9781137566300
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Ref
99-15
About Claire Pamment
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd
“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 ... Read more