Circus Bodies from the Global South

Nisha P R is a historian and the author of Jumbos and Jumping Devils: A Social History of Indian Circus. She has been a Fulbright fellow at Yale University, Mellon-SSRC fellow at University of the Witwatersrand, Research Fellow at Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study and International Institute for Asian Studies.

• Contents List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Circus Bodies That Matter - Nisha P R; Part I: The Body Politics 1. Flying Devils and Female Fakirs: India on Display at Betram Mills Circus in Interwar Britain - Sabine Hanke; 2. Circus, Histories, and International Relations: China's Acrobatic Diplomacy in North America from the Cold War to Neoliberal Globalization - Tracy Ying Zhang; Part II: Contemporary and Social Circuses, and Transnationalisms 3. Imagining Mexico: Transnationalism and the Reproduction of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Circus - Roy Gomez Cruz; 4. Just across the Ocean: African Transnationals in Indian Arenas - Nisha P R; 5. Ethiopian Social Circus: Performance, Politics and Dreams - Leah Olwen Llewellyn; 6. Transforming the Ordinary: Social Circus as Inclusion in the Cities of Brazil and Latin America - Alice Demattos Guimaraes; Part III: Bondage and Bonding; 7. Kinds of Kins: Enacting Human Care and Affection Towards Circus Animals in India - Eleonore Rimbault; 8. Staging Representations of Africans at America's World's Fairs, Wild West Shows, and Circuses – Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Robert W. Rydell Part IV: Tenting and Touring 9. 'The World's Grandest, Largest, Best, Amusement Institution': Spectatorship, Community Formation, and Conflict at the American Tenting Circus, 1825-1956 - Janet M. Davis; 10. A Strongman Takes on the Circus: Eugen Sandow's 1904 – 1905 Tour of Asia - Carey A. Watt; 11. Circus in Form: Nineteenth Century Economic Opportunism and Touring Colonial Asia and India - Peta Tait; Comprehensive Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index