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Sweating saris : Indian dance as transnational labor /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
East Indians > United States > Ethnic identity.
Foreign workers, East Indian > United States > Social conditions.
Bharata natyam > Social aspects > United States.
Women dancers > United States > Social conditions.
Women dancers > India > Social conditions.
Dance > Social aspects > United States.
Dance > Social aspects > India.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Performing ethnographic failure
  • Transnational hauntings of the oriental dancing girl
  • St. Denis and the Nachwalis
  • Entering the archive
  • Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts
  • Negotiating cultural nationalism and minority citizenship
  • Manufacturing of the Indian dancer through off-shore labor.