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Asian American Studies
June 24, 2019
Worldmaking
Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity
Dorinne Kondo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …