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Author Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-

Title Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor / Priya Srinivasan
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages) : illustrations
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
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. Thus the sweating sari of th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index
Notes English
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Subject Dance -- Social aspects -- India
Dance -- Social aspects -- United States
Women dancers -- India -- Social conditions
Women dancers -- United States -- Social conditions
Bharata natyam -- Social aspects -- United States
Foreign workers, East Indian -- United States -- Social conditions
East Indians -- United States -- Ethnic identity
PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance -- Folk.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Hobbies and Games.
Bharata natyam -- Social aspects
Dance -- Social aspects
East Indians -- Ethnic identity
Dans -- kläder -- Indien.
Dansare -- indiskor -- levnadsförhållanden -- Förenta staterna.
Etnicitet -- identitet.
Dancing -- clothing -- India.
Dancers -- Indian women -- living conditions -- United States.
Ethnicity -- identity.
Dans -- sociala aspekter.
Kvinnliga dansare.
Bharata Natyam.
Kvinnliga gästarbetare.
India
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781439904312
1439904316
9786613333865
6613333867