Publications in English

de Bruin Hanne M.

Monographs

2011. Brückner, Heidrun, Hanne M. de Bruin and Heike Moser (Eds.) Between Shame and Fame: Performing Women & Women Performers in India. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag.

1999. Kattaikkuttu: The Flexibility of a South Indian Theatre Tradition. Gonda Indological Studies 7. Groningen (The Netherlands): Egbert Forsten.

1998. Karna Moksham or Karna's Death: A Play by Pukalentippulavar. Publications du Département d'Indologie - 87. A Tamil play translated by Hanne M. de Bruin. Pondicherry (India): Institut Français de Pondichéry, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, International Institute for Asian Studies.

1996. Leprosy in South India: Stigma and Strategies of Coping. Pondy Papers in Social Sciences 22. Pondicherry (India): French Institute of Pondicherry.

Essays

In press ”The making of RamaRavana: Reflections on Gender, Music, and Staging.” Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments. Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha (Eds). Oxford University Press.

2020. “Becoming a Kattaikkuttu Performer.” In: Sarangapani P.M., Pappu R. (eds.) Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Global Education Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3309-5_4-1.

2019. “Karnatic meets Kattaikkuttu: Notes on an unusual cultural conversation.” The Drama Review 63:3 (T243) Fall 2019: 50-73.

2017. “Kattaikkuttu and the World.” Textures: Online Platform for Interweaving Performance Cultures June 19, 2017 (http://www.textures-platform.com/?p=4745)

2016. “Kattaikkuttu.” Kalakshetra Journal, Issue 4, 2016, Chennai: Kalakshetra Foundation Publications:73-104.

2016. “Gender @ Crossroads.” In: Nitya Rao (Ed.) Disciplinary Dialogues on Social Change. New Delhi: Academic Foundation, pp. 179-204.

2009. “Life outside the Text: On the Background and Interpretation of the Mahabharata Characters in Contemporary Kattaikkuttu Performances.” In: Kalyan Kumar Chakravarthy (Ed.) Text and Variations of the Mahabharata: Contextual, Regional and Performative Traditions. New Delhi: National Mission for Manuscripts, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, Munishiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd, pp. 235-246.

2009. “Kattaikkuttu Girls”. In: Lata Singh (Ed.) Theatre in Colonial India: Play-House of Power. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 241-269.“Devadasis and Village Goddesses of North Tamil Nadu.” The Power of Performance: Actors, Audiences and Observers of Cultural Performances in India edited by Heidrun Brückner, Elisabeth Schömbucher and Phillip B. Zarrilli. New Delhi: Manohar, 53-83

2008. De Bruin, Hanne M. and P. Rajagopal. “Between Bisarjan and Vituttal: An Indo-Dutch (Ad) Venture in South Indian Folk Theatre.” Changing Images, Lasting Visions: India and the Netherlands. The Hague (The Netherlands): Embassy of India (published by Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers), 161-163.

2007. “Fieldwork & Positioning”. In: Indian Folklife (A Quarterly Newsletter from the National Folklore Support Centre) 23 (August 2006): Post-field Positionings guest-edited by Susan Seizer. Chennai: National Folklore Support Centre:6-9.

2007. “Donning the vesam in Kattaikkuttu.” In: Shulman, David and Deborah Thiagarajan (Eds.) Masked Ritual and Performance in South India: Dance, Healing, and Possession. Ann Arbor: Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Michigan:107-134.

2007. “Both Sacred and Profane: The Kattaikkuttu Theatre in Tamilnadu”. In: Anjum Katyal (Ed.) Sacred to Profane: Writings on Performance and Worship. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, pp. 188-223.

2005. P. Rajagopal, Evelien Pullens and Hanne M. de Bruin. Aiyappan & The Magic Horse. Chennai (India): Tulika Publishers.

2004. “The Devadasi debate and the public sphere”. In: M.D. Muthukumaraswamy and Molly Kausha (Eds.) Folklore, Public Sphere and Civil Society. New Delhi & Chennai: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and National Folklore Support Centre.

2003. “Challenges to a folk theatre in Tamil Nadu”. Indian Folklore Research Journal (Chennai) 1, 3 (December 2003):1-14.

2002. “Self-censorship as a self-cleansing process”. Hanne M. de Bruin and Theodore Baskaran in conversation (facilitated by M. Ramakrishnan). Indian Folklife 2, 2 (October-December 2002):18-23.

2001. “The unheard history of the rural stage in Tamil Nadu as told by four of its professional exponents.” Newsletter 20, Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (Leiden):42-43.

2001. “The history of the natakam or ‘drama’: A hybrid-popular Theatre in Rural North Tamilnadu”. Seagull Theatre Quarterly 31:56-74. Calcutta (India): The Seagull Foundation for the Arts.

2000. “Naming a theatre in Tamil Nadu.” Asian Theatre Journal 17, 1 (Spring 2000):98-122.

2000. “The hybrid-popular theatre movement and the Tamil Natakam theatre.” Kolam vols. 5 & 6 (July 2000), section IV. Singapore: South Asian Studies Programme (SASP), National University of Singapore and the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies (IITS), University of Cologne http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/journal/kolam/vols/kolam5&6/4BfolkCultur/natakam/natakam.html.

1999. “What practice? Whose practice?” Oideion: Performing Arts Online 3 (July 1999) http://www.iias.nl/oideion/journal/issue03/bruin/index-a.html.

1998. “Studying performance in South India: Theories and practice.” South Asia Research (New Delhi) 18, 1 (Spring 1998):12-38. Special Issue on the Performing Arts of South Asia. Ed. Stuart Blackburn.

1997. De Bruin, Hanne M. and Wim van Zanten. “Performance of South Indian Kattaikkuttu theatre marks the opening of the PAATI Research Programme.” Oideion: Performing Arts Online 1 (November 1997) http://www.iias.nl/oideion/journal/issue01/bruin-za/index-a.html.

1996. “Getting the message across: Using folk media for development communication.” Madhyam (Bangalore) 11, 1:3-9. Special issue on Folk Art and People's Expression.

1996. “Different perspectives on folk theatre's state and recent history in Tamil Nadu.” The Resources of History: Traditions, Narration and Nation in South Asia. Ed. Jackie Assayag. Paris - Pondicherry (India): École Française d'Extrême-Orient and Institut Français de Pondichéry, 261-272.

1993. “Kattaikkuttu: The folk theatre of Tamil Nadu.” Theatre Intercontinental: Forms, Functions, and Correspondences. Eds. C.C. Barfoot and Cobi Bordewijk. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 115-139.

1993. “‘Texts’ and the authors of an oral tradition.” Oideion: The Performing Arts World-wide. CNWS Publications 14. Ed. Wim van Zanten. Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, 1-18.

1993. “Listening to trees.” Seminar (New Delhi) 408 (August 1993):23-26.

1992. “Ritual, stage and history: The relationship between performers and audiences in a Tamil theatre tradition.” Ritual, State and History: Essays in Honour of J.C. Heesterman. Eds. A.W. van den Hoek, D.H.A. Kolff and M.S. Oort. Leiden: Brill, 455-479.

1992. De Bruin, Hanne M. and Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen. “The death of Karna: Two sides of a story.” Asian Theatre Journal 9, 1 (Spring 1992):38-70.

1991. “Analysis of an oral theatre text: Preliminary findings.” Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Madras) 8, 2 (March 1991):98-130.

1989. “Het gebruik van Terukkuttu, een traditioneel volkstheater uit Tamil Nadu, ten behoeve van lepravoorlichting. Populaire cultuur op de planken: Theater, communicatie en Derde Wereld. CESO Paperback 6. Eds. Kees Epskamp and Rogier van 't Rood. Den Haag: CESO, 87-102 (in Dutch).

1989. “The right to communicate and the right to perform.” Communication Processes: Defiance and Dominance. Eds. Guy Poitevin, Bernard Bel and Biswajit Das. Pune (India): Centre for Cooperative Research in Social Sciences http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/ccrss/cp/cp2/cp2-The-4.html