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The dancer's voice : performance and womanhood in transnational India

Title
  1. The dancer's voice : performance and womanhood in transnational India / Rumya Sree Putcha.
Published by
  1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Author
  1. Putcha, Rumya Sree, 1981-

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Description
  1. xvii, 190 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "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, she reveals how women's citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies. In listening closely to and for the dancer's voice, Putcha offers a new way to understand the intersections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation"--
Subject
  1. Dance > Social aspects > India
  2. Feminism and dance > India
  3. Feminism > India
  4. Women dancers > India
  5. Women in the performing arts > India
  6. Women > India > Social conditions
  7. Dance > Social aspects
  8. Feminism
  9. Feminism and dance
  10. Women dancers
  11. Women in the performing arts
  12. Women > Social conditions
  13. Women
  14. Gender identity
  15. Dance
  16. India
Contents
  1. Womanhood -- Caste -- Citizenship -- Silence.
Call number
  1. *MGS (Hindu) 23-3731
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-179), filmography (pages [151]-161) and index.
Author
  1. Putcha, Rumya Sree, 1981- author.
Title
  1. The dancer's voice : performance and womanhood in transnational India / Rumya Sree Putcha.
Publisher
  1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-179), filmography (pages [151]-161) and index.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Putcha, Rumya Sree, 1981- Dancer's voice Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478023760 (DLC) 2022006095
LCCN
  1. 2022006094
ISBN
  1. 9781478016496 (hardcover)
  2. 1478016493
  3. 9781478019138 (paperback)
  4. 1478019131
  5. 9781478023760 (ebook)
Research call number
  1. *MGS (Hindu) 23-3731
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