Sweating saris [[electronic resource] ] : Indian dance as transnational labor / / Priya Srinivasan

• Autore: Srinivasan Priya <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 793.3/1934
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sweating saris
• ISBN: 1-283-33386-4; 9786613333865; 1-4399-0431-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781467603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II