Abstract:Since 2010 the authors have been involved in the production and performance of the Morrisville, North Carolina Ramlila. In 2018 we conducted a participant-ethnography of the production. Many Hindu communities in India and in the South-Asian diaspora have created their own unique Ramlila productions, all of which are to some extent based on Maharishi Valmiki's millennia-old Sanskrit epic, the Rāmāyan.a. The events of the story are dictated largely by religious tradition, but there is surprising variation in the textual and cinematic sources used to generate the performance's spoken dialogues. The Hindu Society of North Carolina began mounting its Ramlila as a small-scale pageant in 2009, but in subsequent years it has grown to be a large-scale production that attracts thousands of audience members. In our study we examine the evolution of the dramatic structure of the play as performed in Morrisville, the group dynamics of the production team and actors, gender roles in the cast and production team, and the aesthetic and political debates that inform the work. We argue that not only does this drama play an important role in forging community identity among North Carolinian South Asians, but also sometimes works to inscribe deeper tensions within the community concerning the meaning of the epic with respect to gender, ethnicity, and transmitted moral values.Afroz Taj is Associate Professor of South Asian culture, literature, and media in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Taj's research interests include Urdu poetry and poetics, South Asian theatre, cinema, and media. He is the author of several books including The Court of Indar and the Rebirth of North Indian Drama, and Urdu through Hindi, as well as many poems and songs in the South Asian styles of ghazal, gīt, dohā, and short stories. His current projects concern the "Urdu Public" and Urdu popular culture including musical theatre, film magazines, and pulp fiction.John Caldwell is Teaching Associate Professor in South Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working on his dissertation in Musicology entitled "Songs from the Other Side: Listening to Pakistani Voices in India." In 2017, Caldwell spent seven months in India on a Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship. Caldwell's other research interests include South Asian film and media culture, comparative musicology, ethnotheory, second language learning, and poetry and poetics. Caldwell also directs the UNC Gamelan Ensemble.

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拉姆勋爵演奏停车场：散居地的拉姆利拉

摘要：自 2010 年以来，作者一直参与北卡罗来纳州莫里斯维尔 Ramlila 的制作和演出。2018 年，我们对作品进行了参与者民族志研究。印度和南亚侨民的许多印度教社区都创作了自己独特的 Ramlila 作品，所有这些作品都在某种程度上基于 Maharishi Valmiki 的千年梵文史诗 Rāmāyan.a。故事的事件主要由宗教传统决定，但用于产生表演口语对话的文本和电影资源却存在惊人的差异。北卡罗来纳州印度教协会于 2009 年开始将其 Ramlila 作为一个小规模的盛会，但在随后的几年里，它已发展成为吸引数千名观众的大规模制作。在我们的研究中，我们研究了在莫里斯维尔演出的戏剧结构的演变、制作团队和演员的群体动态、演员和制作团队中的性别角色，以及为作品提供信息的美学和政治辩论。我们认为，这部戏剧不仅在北卡罗来纳州南亚人的社区认同方面发挥了重要作用，而且有时还有助于在社区内部铭刻更深层次的紧张局势，即史诗在性别、种族和传播道德价值观方面的意义。 .Afroz Taj 是北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校亚洲研究系南亚文化、文学和媒体副教授。Taj 的研究兴趣包括乌尔都语诗歌和诗学、南亚戏剧、电影和媒体。他是多本书籍的作者，包括《印达宫廷》和《北印度戏剧的重生》，以及印地语的乌尔都语，以及许多南亚风格的 ghazal、gīt、dahā 和短篇小说的诗歌和歌曲。他目前的项目涉及“乌尔都语公众”和乌尔都语流行文化，包括音乐剧、电影杂志和低俗小说。约翰考德威尔是北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校南亚研究的教学副教授，也是该校的博士生。北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校正在撰写题为“来自另一边的歌曲：在印度聆听巴基斯坦人的声音”的音乐学论文。2017 年，考德威尔在印度度过了七个月的富布赖特论文研究奖学金。考德威尔 其他研究兴趣包括南亚电影和媒体文化、比较音乐学、民族理论、第二语言学习以及诗歌和诗学。考德威尔还指挥北卡罗来纳大学加美兰乐团。