{"id":405,"date":"2018-03-26T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=405"},"modified":"2021-02-02T12:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:50:52","slug":"soneji-davesh-unfinished-gestures-devadasis-memory-and-modernity-in-south-india-chicago-u-of-chicago-p-2012-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Soneji, Davesh. Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory and Modernity in South India. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012. Print."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the publisher&#8217;s website: &#8220;<i>Unfinished Gestures<\/i>\u00a0presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called\u00a0<i>devadasis<\/i>, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries&#8230;combining ethnographic fieldwork with historical research, Davesh Soneji provides a comprehensive portrait of these marginalized women and unsettles received ideas about relations among them, the aesthetic roots of their performances, and the political efficacy of social reform in their communities&#8230;narrating the history of these women, Soneji argues for the recognition of aesthetics and performance as a key form of subaltern self-presentation and self-consciousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the publisher&#8217;s website: &#8220;Unfinished Gestures\u00a0presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called\u00a0devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries&#8230;combining ethnographic fieldwork with historical research, Davesh Soneji provides a comprehensive portrait of these marginalized women and unsettles received ideas about relations <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=405\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[66,64],"tags":[34,23,26],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-devadasi-life","category-history-devadasis","tag-devadasi","tag-history","tag-secondary-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}