1st Edition
Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities Dancing on Empire's Stage
By Sitara Thobani
Copyright 2017
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin. Whereas most previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance in the context of Indian history and culture, this volume situates this dance practice in the... Read more
1. Setting the Scene: Theorising Indian Dance in Post/Coloniality
2. Keeping Time: Constructions and Performances of Historical Narrative
3. Covering Space: Mobility, Transnationalism, Ethnicity
4. Playing Roles: Postcolonial Performances of Gender
5. Marking the Stage: Finding the Religious, Spiritual and Secular in Indian Classical Dance
6. Conclusion
Biography
Sitara Thobani received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford, UK. She has lectured at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and at the University of British Columbia, Canada
