Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia

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Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA)

Badhai

Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia

Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA), Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA) , Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)

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Methuen Drama
30 May 2024

Theatre Studies; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Forms of Drama

This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai’s repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation, religion, genre, and identity.

This collaboratively authored book draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai’s place-based dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the hijrascape. This vital study explores the form’s changing status and analyses these performances’ layered, scalar, and sensorial practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans performance.

By: Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University the Netherlands), Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA), Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA)
Series edited by: Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama University of London UK)
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781350346024
ISBN 10: 1350346020
Series: Forms of Drama
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 30 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adnan Hossain is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Claire Pamment is Associate Professor of World Theatre and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, William & Mary, USA. Jeff Roy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Studies, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.