New Books Network

About Sitara Thobani

NBN Episodes hosted by Sitara:

Asian American Studies June 24, 2019

Worldmaking

Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity

Dorinne Kondo

Hosted by Sitara Thobani
In Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity (Duke University Press 2018), Dorinne Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen awareness of the …
Asian American Studies May 22, 2019

Ornamentalism

Anne A. Cheng

Hosted by Sitara Thobani
In her original and thought-provoking book Ornamentalism (Oxford University Press, 2019), Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’. So doing, she moves beyond a …
Performing Arts December 28, 2018

Moving Otherwise

Dance, Violence and Memory in Buenos Aires

Victoria Fortuna

Hosted by Sitara Thobani
Victoria Fortuna's new book Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence and Memory in Buenos Aires (Oxford University Press, 2018) examines the different ways in which contemporary dance practices have engaged in resistance …
Performing Arts June 4, 2018

Dancing in Blackness

A Memoir

Halifu Osumare

Hosted by Sitara Thobani
Combining memoir with auto-ethnography, historical study and sociocultural analysis, Halifu Osumare draws on her decades of experience to explore the complexities of black dance in the United States. Starting in …
Performing Arts April 19, 2018

Making Samba

A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

Marc Hertzman

Hosted by Sitara Thobani
In Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013), Marc Hertzman revisits the history of Brazil's quintessential music and dance genre to explore …
Performing Arts December 29, 2017

Dancing in the Blood

Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War

Edward Ross Dickinson

Hosted by Sitara Thobani
In his new book, Dancing in the Blood: Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Edward Ross Dickinson charts the …
Performing Arts October 9, 2017

Spectacular Disapperances

Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801

Julia Fawcett

Hosted by Sitara Thobani
"How can the modern individual maintain control over his or her self-representation when the whole world seems to be watching?" This is the question that prompts Julia Fawcett's new book …