Scenes of Objection: Performance and Protest in Manipur

Abstract

Abstract:This article examines three scenes of protest, from a short story, a theatre production, and a public protest, respectively. It argues that these scenes demonstrate the power of embodied objection to function as voice when speech itself is unheard. The screaming, naked bodies in these scenes exceed liberal conceptions of agential voice and reconceptualize vulnerability and exposure as a mode of political action.