Dancing Postcolonialism

Author : Sabine Sörgel
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dance companies
ISBN : UCSC:32106019098554

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Dancing Postcolonialism by Sabine Sörgel Pdf

This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) in the context of postcolonial theatre. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the study examines the interrelationship of Jamaican modern dance theatre aesthetics and the Caribbean's complex cultural genealogy since 1492. Addressing issues of postcolonial nationalism and Jamaican identity politics, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the NDTC's modern dance theatre works as it situates dance theatre choreography at the centre of postcolonial independence politics and cultural theory in the Caribbean.

Author : Sitara Thobani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315387321

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Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities by Sitara Thobani Pdf

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin. Whereas most previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance in the context of Indian history and culture, this volume situates this dance practice in the longstanding trasnational linkages between India and the UK. What is the relation between the contemporary performance of Indian classical dance and the constitution of national, diasporic and multicultural identity? Where and how does Indian dance derive its productive power in the postcolonial moment? How do diasporic and nationalist representations of Indian culture intersect with depictions of British culture and politics? It is argued that classical Indian dance has become a key aspect of not only postcolonial South Asian diasporic identities, but also of British multicultural and transnational identity. Based on an extensive ethnographic study of performances of Indian classical dance in the UK, this book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, South Asian studies, Postcolonial, Transnational and Cultural studies, and Theatre and Performance studies.

Author : Grace Li Xiu Woo
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774818902

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Ghost Dancing with Colonialism by Grace Li Xiu Woo Pdf

Some assume that Canada earned a place among postcolonial states in 1982 when it took charge of its Constitution. Yet despite the formal recognition accorded to Aboriginal and treaty rights at that time, Indigenous peoples continue to argue that they are still being colonized. Grace Woo assesses this allegation using a binary model that distinguishes colonial from postcolonial legality. She argues that two legal paradigms governed the expansion of the British Empire, one based on popular consent, the other on conquest and the power to command. Ghost Dancing with Colonialism casts explanatory light on ongoing tensions between Canada and Indigenous peoples.

Author : Tim Barringer,Wayne Modest
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822374626

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Victorian Jamaica by Tim Barringer,Wayne Modest Pdf

Victorian Jamaica explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photographs of plantation laborers and landscape paintings to cricket team photographs, furniture, and architecture, as well as a wide range of texts, the contributors trace the relationship between black Jamaicans and colonial institutions; contextualize race within ritual and performance; and outline how material and visual culture helped shape the complex politics of colonial society. By narrating Victorian history from a Caribbean perspective, this richly illustrated volume—featuring 270 full-color images—offers a complex and nuanced portrait of Jamaica that expands our understanding of the wider history of the British Empire and Atlantic world during this period. Contributors. Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Tim Barringer, Anthony Bogues, David Boxer, Patrick Bryan, Steeve O. Buckridge, Julian Cresser, John M. Cross, Petrina Dacres, Belinda Edmondson, Nadia Ellis, Gillian Forrester, Catherine Hall, Gad Heuman, Rivke Jaffe, O'Neil Lawrence, Erica Moiah James, Jan Marsh, Wayne Modest, Daniel T. Neely, Mark Nesbitt, Diana Paton, Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis, Veerle Poupeye, Jennifer Raab, James Robertson, Shani Roper, Faith Smith, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, Dianne M. Stewart, Krista A. Thompson

Author : Sitara Thobani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315387338

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Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities by Sitara Thobani Pdf

Previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance as an expression of Indian religious and nationalist culture, examining the art form solely in the context of Indian history and culture. In investigating performances of Indian classical dance in the UK it is possible to argue that classical Indian dance has become a key aspect of the mutual constitution of not only postcolonial Indian and South Asia diasporic identities, but also of British multicultural and transnational identity. Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when national cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its construction. The chapters in this volume addresses the questions: * What is the relation between the contemporary performance of Indian classical dance and the constitution of national, diasporic and multicultural identity? * Where/how does Indian dance derive its productive power in the postcolonial moment? * How do diasporic and nationalist representations of Indian culture intersect with depictions of British culture and politics? Based on an extensive ethnographic study of performances of Indian classical dance in the UK, this book should be of interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, South Asian studies, Postcolonial, Transnational and Cultural studies and Theatre and Performance studies.

Author : Stavros Stavrou Karayanni
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781554587193

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Dancing Fear and Desire by Stavros Stavrou Karayanni Pdf

Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance—an investigation that extends to contemporary belly dance. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and national identity. Close readings of colonial travel narratives, an examination of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, and analyses of treatises about Greek dance, reveal the intricate ways in which this controversial dance has been shaped by Eurocentric models that define and control identity performance.

Author : Shifra Schonmann
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783830981190

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International Yearbook for Research in Arts Education 3/2015 by Shifra Schonmann Pdf

This yearbook will be the third in an annual series of publications by the International Network for Research in Arts Education (INREA). It will provide a comprehensive survey of contemporary research trends in arts education and will be based on the idea of constructing knowledge in the arts with the wisdom of the many. About sixty scholars from across the world will convey the zeitgeist of the key issues in research in arts education. The volume will be designed as a basic companion for every researcher, student, teacher or artist who wants to know what the recent knowledge of scholars is and what they consider significant. The key issues will reflect the images and the observations that a large body of researchers consider to be essential.

Author : Hélène Neveu Kringelbach,Jonathan Skinner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857455765

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Dancing Cultures by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach,Jonathan Skinner Pdf

Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.

Author : Tina K Ramnarine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000766530

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Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora by Tina K Ramnarine Pdf

Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora provides fascinating examples of dance and music projects across the Indian Diaspora to highlight that decolonisation is a creative process, as well as a historical and political one. The book analyses creative processes in decolonising projects, illustrating how dance and music across the Indian Diaspora articulate socio-political aspirations in the wake of thinkers such as Gandhi and Ambedkar. It presents a wide range of examples: post-apartheid practices and experiences in a South African dance company, contestations over national identity politics in Trinidadian music competitions, essentialist and assimilationist strategies in a British dance competition, the new musical creativity of second-generation British-Tamil performers, Indian classical dance projects of reform and British multiculturalism, feminist intercultural performances in Australia, and performance re-enactments of museum exhibits that critically examine the past. Key topics under discussion include postcolonial contestations, decolonising scholarship, dialogic pedagogies and intellectual responsibility. The book critically reflects on decolonising aims around respect, equality and the colonial past’s redress as expressed through performing arts projects. Presenting richly detailed case studies that underline the need to examine creative processes in the cultures of decolonisation, Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora will be of great interest to scholars of South Asian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Performing Arts Studies and Anthropology. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Author : Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margeret Iverson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0719048761

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Colonial Discourse/ Postcolonial Theory by Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margeret Iverson Pdf

This book on post-colonial theory has a wide geographic range and a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the book is a critique of the very idea of the 'postcolonial' itself.

Author : Simon Featherstone
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1578067715

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Postcolonial Cultures by Simon Featherstone Pdf

An overview of postcolonial studies and current thought on literature, tourism, and popular culture

Author : Bill Ashcroft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134556953

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Post-Colonial Transformation by Bill Ashcroft Pdf

In his new book, Bill Ashcroft gives us a revolutionary view of the ways in which post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control. The most comprehensive analysis of major features of post-colonial studies ever compiled, Post-Colonial Transformation: * demonstrates how widespread the strategy of transformation has been * investigates political and literary resistance * examines the nature of post-colonial societies' engagement with imperial language, history, allegory, and place * offers radical new perspectives in post-colonial theory in principles of habitation and horizonality. Post-Colonial Transformation breaks new theoretical ground while demonstrating the relevance of a wide range of theoretical practices, and extending the exploration of topics fundamentally important to the field of post-colonial studies.

Author : Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Colonies
ISBN : 9780415243605

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Post-colonial Studies by Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin Pdf

An essential guide to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism. A comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, a bibliography of essential writings and an easy-to-use A-Z format.

Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317614579

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Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba Pdf

Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include globalization, new grassroots movements (including Occupy Wall Street), the environmental crisis, and the relationship between Marxism and postcolonial studies. Loomba also discusses how ongoing struggles such as those of indigenous peoples, and the enclosure of the commons in different parts of the world shed light on the long histories of colonialism. This edition also has extensive discussions of temporality, and the relationship between premodern, colonial and contemporary forms of racism. This books includes: key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism the relationship of colonial discourse to literature anticolonial thought and movements challenges to colonialism, including anticolonial discourses recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories issues of sexuality and colonialism, and the intersection of feminist and postcolonial thought the relationship of activist struggles and scholarship. Colonialism/Postcolonialism is the essential introduction to a vibrant and politically charged area of literary and cultural study. It is the ideal guide for students new to colonial discourse theory, postcolonial studies or postcolonial theory as well as a reference for advanced students and teachers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129062332

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Bibliographic Index by Anonim Pdf