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The Department of Cultural Studies
Invites you all to a Public Lecture by
DR. SHILPA AANAND
‘Crippled’ Between Looking Back and Moving Forward:
The case of Nontinatakam
On October 22nd 2014 (Wednesday) at 3 pm
In Room no. 2, First Floor, New Academic Block, EFLU
Nontinatakam, a tradition of Tamil drama performed in temple complexes from the 17th to the 19th C. has been studied as part of Tamil cultural, religious and literary history by scholars such as Alf Hiltebeitel and David Shulman in the 1980s and later. More recently, ‘Nonti Natakam or Tamil Cripple Drama’ appeared as an entry in Volume 5 of the Sage Encyclopaedia of Disability (2005). This volume of the encyclopaedia carries information about a variety of “primary source documents” from around the world that are rich in representations of disability. Considering that the protagonist of Nontinatakam, as the name suggests, is an amputee, a man who has lost one leg and one arm, this cultural form has been recovered as a ‘disability text’ in the light of growing interest within disability studies to investigate historical responses to disability and to understand different cultural notions of disability. This talk will investigate the phenomenon of recovering Nontinatakam as a disability text in view of disability representation, disability performance as well as disability epistemology while also reflecting on what this recovery does to previously existing discursive frames that have cast and re-cast Nontinatakam in different ways.
Dr. Shilpa Aanand is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University , Hyderabad
Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda
Department of Cultural Studies
The English and Foreign Languages University
Hyderabad 500 605, India
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