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  • Unmaking Contact

    Choreographing South Asian Touch

    de Royona Mitra ...
    Unmaking Contact interrogates “contact”, understood in Global North dance discourse as a shorthand for the movement discipline of contact improvisation (CI) and its characteristic shifting points of weight-sharing between two or more bodies through physical touch, by attending to power asymmetries that are foundational to this practice. By placing South Asian aesthetics, bodies, discourses, and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Akram Khan

    Dancing New Interculturalism

    de Royona Mitra ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western 'intercultural theatre' project, as a more nuanced and embodied approach to representing Othernesses, from his own position of the Other. ... Leer más

    $134.09 USD

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  • Queer Spiritual Spaces

    Sexuality and Sacred Places

    de Kath Browne, Sally R. Munt, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip ...
    Drawn from extensive, new and rich empirical research across the UK, Canada and USA, Queer Spiritual Spaces investigates the contemporary socio-cultural practices of belief, by those who have historically been, and continue to be, excluded or derided by mainstream religions and alternative spiritualities. As the first monograph to be directly informed by 'queer' subjectivities whilst dealing with ... Leer más

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  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    de Nicola Mooney ...
    Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    de Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Libro 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • In Stereotype

    South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

    de Mrinalini Chakravorty ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Unruly Figures

    Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala

    de Navaneetha Mokkil, Piya Chatterjee ...
    Series series Decolonizing Feminisms
    The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that has a long history of political protests. The 2014 “Kiss of Love” campaign garnered national attention, sparking controversy as images of activists kissing in public and dragged into police vans flooded ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Dhol

    Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab

    de Gibb Schreffler ...
    An icon of global Punjabi culture, the dhol drum inspires an unbridled love for the instrument far beyond its application to regional vernacular music. Yet the identities of dhol players within their local communities and the broadly conceived Punjabi nation remain obscure.Gibb Schreffler draws on two decades of research to investigate dhol's place among the cultural formations within Punjabi ... Leer más

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  • Dance Matters

    Performing India on Local and Global Stages

    Edición de Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta ...
    This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts have shaped Indian dance and its negotiation with modernity.. Written by eminent and emergent ... Leer más

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  • Emerging South Asian Women Writers

    Essays and Interviews

    Edición de Feroza Jussawalla, Deborah Fillerup Weagel ...
    Series Libro 1 - From Antiquity to Modernity
    This volume was conceived as a space to provide visibility for South Asian women writers whose work has not had much exposure in the West. It contributes to the knowledge of South Asian women writers by including scholarship not only on little-known writers but also by scholars from India – in particular, those whose voices do not necessarily find themselves in western academic publications.Many ... Leer más

    $96.99 USD

  • Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities

    Dancing on Empire's Stage

    de Sitara Thobani ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    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 longstanding ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Vernacular English

    Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India

    de Akshya Saxena ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this ... Leer más

    $29.59 USD