Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor

Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor

by Priya Srinivasan
Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor

Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor

by Priya Srinivasan

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439904299
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 12/02/2011
Pages: 236
Sales rank: 908,600
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Priya Srinivasan is Associate Professor in Critical Dance Studies at the Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 
Introduction 
1. Performing Ethnographic Failure 
2. Transnational Hauntings of the Oriental Dancing Girl 
3. St. Denis and the Nachwalis 
4. Entering the Archive 
5. Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts 
6. Negotiating Cultural Nationalism and Minority Citizenship 
7. Manufacturing of the Indian Dancer through Off-Shore Labor 
Epilogue 
Glossary 
Works Cited 
Endnotes

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