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Dancing the feminine : gender and identity performances by Indonesian migrant women
Title
Dancing the feminine : gender and identity performances by Indonesian migrant women / Monika Swasti Winarnita.
ISBN
9781845196936
1845196937
Publication
Brighton ; Chicago ; Toronto : Sussex Academic Press, 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
xi, 192 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"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 women's 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2016
Series
The Sussex library of Asian and Asian American studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-180) and index.
Contents
Introducing Indonesian migrant women performance
Methodology
Intersection of literature: marriage migration and migrants' cultural performance
Perth, Western Australia: fieldwork location among the migrant community
Research on Indonesian-Australians and their intercultural relationships
Catcalling older dancers who are performing a feminine dance
Ethnomusicology of Indonesians in Australia and Indonesian women performers
Chapter outline
Politics and poetics of authenticity in cultural representation
Meeting the housewives' dance group at the Indonesian community event
Literature on authenticity in the cultural performance of dance
Unity in diversity: an inauthentic "created" Indonesian national dance
Gaining status through photos with the Premier of Western Australia
From embarrassing to empowering performance, femininity negotiated in a duel for recognition
The Indonesian bazaar
Losing face (malu) with an "amateur" performance
The state as status
Markers of status through valued criteria of performance
Ageing dancers, diminished sexuality and masculine performance
Exploring transnational sexualities
Devaluing feminine performances as transnational politics of culture
Masculine roles: shaking up transnational gender and sexuality ideals
Negotiating transnational sexuality and rejecting the negative bar girl image
Performing Chinese-Indonesian belonging in the diaspora, transnationally and translocally
Performing belonging as a Chinese-Indonesian
Diasporic belonging
Transnational belonging
Translocal belonging
Gendered forms of belonging
Why belong to a nation as a persecuted minority?
Ritual or modern spectacle? How to represent exotic Bali to potential tourists
Ramayana as national ritual celebrating Indonesian Independence Day
Ramayana as ritual out of place in Australian multicultural festivals
The three dancers' individual narratives in creating the modern Ramayana
Conclusion: moving together, audience participation and reception at the end of the show
Revelations in the disjunctures as told through ethnographic stories
Discourses of femininity, relation to "authenticity" and audience expectations
Locating the findings in the broader literature.
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