title: The Art of Imperial Entanglements: Nautch Girls on the British Canvas and Stage in the Long Nineteenth Century
creator: Barlas, Zara
subject: 700
subject: 700 The arts
subject: 750
subject: 750 Painting and paintings
subject: 780
subject: 780 Music
subject: 790
subject: 790 Recreational and performing arts
subject: 940
subject: 940 General history of Europe
subject: 950
subject: 950 General history of Asia Far East
subject: 990
subject: 990 General history of other areas
description: This dissertation focuses on the unique trend of nautch-girl (Indian dancing girl) artworks that emerged in Britain during her colonial clasp on India, which coincided with the increasing exploration of (and changing attitudes towards) the role of women in British society. The nautch girl was considered a controversial figure in Britain, particularly since she was associated (usually erroneously) with sexually immoral behaviour and prostitution, while also being patronised widely by members of Britain’s high society within India and Britain. The attention paid towards the body, performance and sexual character of the nautch girl, which spanned across art forms and was particularly resonant and vivid in the visual arts and musical entertainment, appeared to simultaneously promote acts of voyeurism and disparagement. Most notably, however, the process of culturally locating the nautch girl in British artworks not only bolstered (or occasionally condemned) imperialist intentions, but also demonstrated how Britain was susceptible to the processes of transculturality in the adoption of the “art” of the nautch girl within its own artistic and cultural practices.
date: 2019
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/27037/1/PhD%20Thesis%20Edited%20for%20heiDOK%20PDFA.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00027037
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-270375
identifier:   Barlas, Zara  (2019) The Art of Imperial Entanglements: Nautch Girls on the British Canvas and Stage in the Long Nineteenth Century.  [Dissertation]     
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language: eng