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

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages) : illustrations

"A 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. Srinivasan shifts away from the usual emphasis on Indian women dancers as culture bearers of the Indian nation. She asks us to reframe the movements of late nineteenth century transnational Nautch Indian dancers to the foremother of modern dance Ruth St. Denis in the early twentieth century to contemporary teenage dancers in Southern California, proposing a transformative theory of dance, gendered-labor, and citizenship that is far-reaching" -- Provided by publisher's website.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index.

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