Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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Sundaram Is Like a Ghost in My Life
In the first chapter of your book we're introduced to an absent presence or a presence at present absence in the archives of south Indian cinema and that of Sundaram. Could you speak a little bit more about who Sundaram was and why you found her disappearing so to speak? What does tugging at the analytical threads of silences shame and honor yield in terms of understanding cast and womanhood and telugu films and performance cultures more broadlyYeah so Sundaram is like a ghost in my life I've been chasing her for almost a more than a decade now and she feels so familiar and yet so unknowable.
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