Dancer's Voice

Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Rumya Sree Putcha

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In The Dancer’s Voice Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination-a representation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family’s heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women’s citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer’s voice, she offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-12-09
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478016496

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"What is unique about Putcha’s book is that it centres the desires and agency of the women dancers, rather than the cultural gatekeepers or the institutions that seek to control the art form. Her book also follows the figure of the dancer beyond the formal classical dance arenas to give us a more comprehensive idea of who the dancer becomes for multiple audiences. This is not an easy book to read, but it is an intriguing one." - Tapoja Chaudhuri (International Examiner) "The Dancer’s Voice is a welcome addition to South Asian dance and film scholarship. It offers a useful intervention into where and why the researcher’s own voice is needed within the ethnographic methodology." - Ranjini Nair (Performance Research) "In this illuminating work, Rumya Sree Putcha systematically brings forth the complexities of power relations involved in Indian dance performance and connects them to questions of citizenship and transnationalism. Putcha’s meticulous blending of reflections on her positionality as a dancer-placed alongside her family’s migration journey from India to the United States together with the rigorous research work drawn on archival and engraphic sources-makes her analysis rich." - Madhumita Biswal (Pacific Affairs)