Dancing the Feminine

Gender and Identity Performances by Indonesian Migrant Women

AvMonika Swasti Winarnita

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Liverpool Library of Asian & Asian American Studies

668 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

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. Such performances are also a means to express the migrant life of movement and a way to maintain their sense of well-being. Dancing the Feminine is a compelling vision of expressions of gender and identity at the heart of the Asian womens experience. For the Indonesian female migrants, performing femininity is frequently negotiated in a cross-cultural context. The performances that author Monika Winarnita analyses 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. A particular appeal of this book is the way in which cultural dance performance offers profound insight into migrants life experience as well as into how human beings tell their stories and interact with one another. Based on her experience of performing dance with Indonesian migrant women in Australia, the author provides a unique and novel set of research data that contributes to a diverse body of scholarly work in migration, performance, gender, sexuality and cultural studies, anthropology, and Asian studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-05-03
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:316 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Liverpool Library of Asian & Asian American Studies
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781845198183

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Dansböcker inom Kultur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Monika Swasti Winarnita is a Research Associate of Anthropology at La Trobe University Australia and a Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her published work covers Indonesian, Malay and Australian studies, migration, transnational families, diaspora politics, identity, gender and cultural performance.

Recensioner i media

Monika Winarnitas work provides an intellectually rigorous, insightful, original and engaging examination of the pursuit of traditional, authentic Indonesian dance performances by Indonesian immigrant women in Perth, Western Australia. -- Professor Henry Spiller (ethnomusicology) and Chair, Department of Music, UC Davis