FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

 

Counter Seductions: The actress in the Colonial Metropolis

Speaker: Rimli Bhattacharya trained in Comparative Literature and works on performance studies, translation, children's literature and primary education. She currently teaches in the Department of English, University of Delhi. She is the author of Public Women in British India: Icons and the Urban Stage, Routledge, Delhi, 2019

Chair: Sudhir Chandra

 

What did work mean to the 19th century stage actress? What did she mean to the colonial metropolis? What do we make of fin-de-siècle images, personal narratives and popular print media a century later?