FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
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
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?
Event starts on Wednesday, 24 April 2019 at 05:30 hrs
Type
Talks
Dates
24 Apr 2019, 05:30 AM
Venue
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY