Sweating saris
Subtitle: Indian dance as transnational labor
By: Priya Srinivasan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439904299; 9781439904305; 9781439904312
Subjects: Bharata natyam; Ethnic identity; Women dancers; East Indian Foreign workers; East Indians; Dance; Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Performing ethnographic failure; title: Transnational hauntings of the oriental dancing girl; title: St. Denis and the Nachwalis; title: Entering the archive; title: Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts; title: Negotiating cultural nationalism and minority citizenship; title: Manufacturing of the Indian dancer through off-shore labor.