BINODINI DASI ON/ OFF STAGE: ENGENDERING GOSSIP AND SEXUALIZING STARDOM
Keywords:
Gender, Ferminity, stardomAbstract
The present paper investigates the link between gender, ideology and stardom with regards to early 20th century Bengali actress, Binodini Dasi. Here, I argue that the stardom of early theatre actresses was founded in infamy and they had largely oral and visual basis of stardom. Unlike actors who had mostly print – mediated circulation of fame and were always regarded ‘respectable’ celebrity. Through the lens of gender, my paper thus inquires issues – mode of constitution and circulation of narrative of female stardom, question of social respectability and female star status, construction of female performing body and ideal feminity in colonial Bengal of 1930s.
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