Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor / Priya Srinivasan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Social aspects--India.

Dance.

Dance--Social aspects--United States.

Women dancers--India--Social conditions.

Women dancers.

Women dancers--United States--Social conditions.

Bharata natyam--Social aspects--United States.

Bharata natyam.

Foreign workers, East Indian--United States--Social conditions.

Foreign workers, East Indian.

East Indians--United States--Ethnic identity.

East Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A groundbreaking book that seeks to understand dance as labor, Sweating Saris examines dancers not just as aesthetic bodies but as transnational migrant workers and wage earners who negotiate citizenship and gender issues. Srinivasan merges ethnography, history, critical race theory, performance and post-colonial studies among other disciplines to investigate the embodied experience of Indian dance. The dancers' sweat stained and soaked saris, the aching limbs are emblematic of global circulations of labor, bodies, capital, and industrial goods.

Contents:

Performing ethnographic failure

Transnational hauntings of the oriental dancing girl

St. Denis and the Nachwalis

Entering the archive

Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts

Negotiating cultural nationalism and minority citizenship

Manufacturing of the Indian dancer through off-shore labor.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613333865

9781283333863

1283333864

9781439904312

1439904316

OCLC:

768110986

Publisher Number:

heb40334 hdl