DANCING TO CREATE ALTERNATIVE AND HEALING SPACES IN MIRA NAIR FILMS
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https://doi.org/10.12795/RICL.2016.i19.25Keywords:
Mira Nair, dance, South Asian Subcontinent, filmAbstract
This paper studies how Nair represents female characters that empower themselves using dance elements from the South Asia Subcontinent performing arts tradition to subvert the British Empire historical forms of colonial (and neo-colonial) domination based on race and gender.
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