The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia

ISBN-13: 9781032085975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Amit Sarwal

Opis

The Dancing God charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in Australia. Ideal for anyone with an interest in global dance, this is an in-depth study of how a unique dance form evolved in the meeting of travellers and cultures.

Spis treści

List of figures; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the beginnings; 1. Hindu, Hinduism and Hindutva; 2. The Hindu dance; 3. The Australian mother of Kathakali; 4. The dancing God; Conclusion: temple dreaming; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Dr. Amit Sarwal is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of the South Pacific, an affiliate member of the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University and the founding convenor of Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network. His areas of interest include the South Asian diaspora, cultural diplomacy, Australia-India relations, and Bollywood. His research papers on these topics have appeared in high-ranking journals such as Asian Ethnicity, Dance Chronicle, Dance Research, Antipodes, South Asian Popular Culture, South Asian Diaspora, Journalism Studies, Politics & Policy and Culture, Society and Masculinities. He has many books to his credit, prominent being Wanderings in India (2012), Bollywood and Its Other(s) (2014), Labels and Locations (2015), Salaam Bollywood (2016), South Asian Diaspora Narratives (2016/2017), Louise Lightfoot in Search of India (2017) and Vyakul Rashtra (2017).