How Long to Read Unfinished Gestures

How Long Does it Take to Read Unfinished Gestures?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Unfinished Gestures by Davesh Soneji

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Unfinished Gestures presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred years of vociferous social reform, including a 1947 law that criminalized their lifestyles, the women in devadasis communities contend with severe social stigma and economic and cultural disenfranchisement. Adroitly 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. Poignantly 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. Ranging over courtly and private salon performances of music and dance by devadasis in the nineteenth century, the political mobilization of devadasis identity in the twentieth century, and the post-reform lives of women in these communities today, Unfinished Gestures charts the historical fissures that lie beneath cultural modernity in South India.

How long is Unfinished Gestures?

Unfinished Gestures by Davesh Soneji is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Unfinished Gestures Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Unfinished Gestures aloud.

What Reading Level is Unfinished Gestures?

Unfinished Gestures is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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