Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
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How Do You Confront the Categorization of Your Work as an Autorenographic?
I feel like I could keep adding to this book in so many ways. The very last thing I wrote for the book was the epilogue where I'm thinking about like what it means to think about womanhood and performance in the contemporary moment. And then Priyanka Chopra got married and I had to change her name. It's taken me 10 years to write this book and think in another 10 years it will be something else too. Just the way you phrase that was so powerful to me. You instead suggest that your experiences and that if your interlocutors exist on a dynamic continuum. So could you tell us a little bit about why you contest the categorization of your
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