Book review: comic performance in Pakistan: the bhānd by Claire Pamment
Abbasi, A.
(13 November 2018)
Book review: comic performance in Pakistan: the bhānd by Claire Pamment.
LSE Review of Books.
In Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd, Claire Pamment explores the centuries-old tradition of Pakistani bhānd performances which have used comedy to tread a line between flattery and challenging patrons’ authority. Asad Abbasi, however, argues that Pamment’s work is anything but comedy, and reveals the discriminations faced by this subaltern population.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2018 The Author(s) |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 22 Jun 2021 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110913 |