Dancing the Feminine
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| ISBN-13: | 9781845198183 | Format: | Paperback |
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| Subject: | Uvic Publications | Publisher: | Sussex Academic Press |
| Published: | September 1st 2016 | Series Title: | Asian and Asian American Studies |
| Pages: | 208 |
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Book Description
Migration makes a profound impression on identity (gender and sexuality, culture, class, status), its expressions, and performance. Research in this field has demonstrated that migrant communities often cast women as bearers of cultural reproduction. This is especially the case when women choose to become representatives of their community through cultural dance performances. The performances that author Monika Winarnita analyzes are dramas of human interaction brought up through fissures and resolutions between the performers and their various audiences. The book provides analysis of these cultural performances as rituals of belonging, which demonstrate that in the diaspora meanings of the ritual are always open to being contested.
About the Author
Monika Swasti Winarnita is a Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, BC Canada with affiliation to La Trobe University Australia. Her published work covers Indonesian, Malay and Australian studies, migration, transnational families, diaspora politics, identity, gender, sexuality and cultural performance.