Desi Divas : Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances /

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Desi Divas: Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and Cultures (SILC), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), the feminist dance collective Post Natyam,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garlough, Christine, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in the performing arts.
Performance art > Political aspects.
Art and social action.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Art et action sociale > États-Unis.
Femmes dans les arts du spectacle > États-Unis.
Americaines d'origine sud-asiatique > Moeurs et coutumes.
Art and social action > United States.
Women in the performing arts > United States.
South Asian Americans women > Ethnic identity.
South Asian American women > Social life and customs.
Performance art > Social aspects > United States.
Performance art > Political aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Toward acknowledgment: care in diasporic performances
  • Performing South Asian American histories
  • National recognition and community acknowledgment
  • A future in relation to the other
  • Cultural activism and sexuality in feminist performance
  • Intertwining folklore and rhetoric: cultural performance, acknowledgment, and social justice.

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