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A Split Discourse: Body Politics in Pakistan's Popular Punjabi Theatre
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 56, Number 1, Spring 2012 (T213)
- pp. 114-127
- Article
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While the "bad girls" of Pakistan's contemporary Punjabi theatre are accused of "obscenity" and "vulgarity" and punished by harsh censorship, girls from "good families" are actively promoted in Anglophone dramas. Punjabi performers reverse the gaze onto this split discourse, exposing the body politic's gender and class biases.