Pure Enterainment: Parsi Theatre, Gender, and Performance by Kathryn Hansen. Published in 2024 by Primus Books, an imprint of Ratna Sagar P. Ltd., Virat Bhavan, Mukherjee Nagar Commercial Complex, Delhi 110009; website: www.primusbooks.com; email: rsagar@ratnasagar.com; Pp: xxii+449. Price: Rs 1,495.
Pure Entertainment: Parsi Theatre, Gender, and Performance, a compendium of 14 essays, is a testament to a life’s work on Parsi theater. Written over the course of 25 years by Kathryn Hansen, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin, these essays are a window into the world of Parsi theater, drawing on theories of gender, visual culture, colonialism, autobiography, global......