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The seductions of dissonance: Ragini Devi and the idea of India in the United States, 1893--1965.

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Title/Author:	The seductions of dissonance: Ragini Devi and the idea of India in the United States, 1893--1965./
Author:	Mattson, Rachel Lindsay.
Description:	463 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 1085.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3127464

The seductions of dissonance: Ragini Devi and the idea of India in the United States, 1893--1965.
Mattson, Rachel Lindsay.

The seductions of dissonance: Ragini Devi and the idea of India in the United States, 1893--1965. - 463 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 1085.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.

"The Seductions of Dissonance" examines American ideas about India in the twentieth century by exploring the life of Ragini Devi, a white American dancer and ethnographer who spent much of her life "passing" as a Kashmiri Hindu. A contributor to the effort, in India, in the 1930s--1950s to revive---really, to reimagine---Indian classical dance, she also helped invent, in the U.S., "ethnic" dance. But although she spent her life studying Indian culture, her artistic and scholarly contributions are far more durable if read as enactments of the erotic and racial longing central to the invention of American whiteness.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

The seductions of dissonance: Ragini Devi and the idea of India in the United States, 1893--1965.
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520 $a "The Seductions of Dissonance" examines American ideas about India in the twentieth century by exploring the life of Ragini Devi, a white American dancer and ethnographer who spent much of her life "passing" as a Kashmiri Hindu. A contributor to the effort, in India, in the 1930s--1950s to revive---really, to reimagine---Indian classical dance, she also helped invent, in the U.S., "ethnic" dance. But although she spent her life studying Indian culture, her artistic and scholarly contributions are far more durable if read as enactments of the erotic and racial longing central to the invention of American whiteness.
520 $a An American born in Michigan in 1893, her name at birth was Esther Sherman. Her father was a tailor whose parents came from Germany; her mother was a housewife with roots in England. She was raised in Minneapolis to be middle-class and white. But in the 1920s, she struck out on her own for New York City. Renaming herself Ragini Devi, she launched a career as a solo dancer. Replacing Minnesotan frocks with an Indian sari, she invented a series of dances, called them "Hindu," and danced her way to minor fame as Ragini Devi, "dancer of Hindu Dances, player upon the Tambura and Sitar." And for the better part of her American career (1922--1930, 1940--1947), she passed as a South Asian. Explaining that she was a Kashmiri Hindu from north India, she created a new identity for herself out of the cultural scraps that circulated into her orbit: stereotypes, historical information-and exotic fantasy.
520 $a Joining theory to life stories, this dissertation builds on and pushes past the frameworks that have driven both post-structuralist accounts of race as a social construction and social histories of racial formation in the U.S. Because Devi's personal and professional decisions were so unusual, they illuminate a range of hard-to-track features of the social, cultural, and intellectual U.S. past---namely, the importance of ideas about "Hindus" and "the mysterious East" in the development of the mechanisms of racial hierarchy in the twentieth-century U.S. It also considers the potential hazards lurking within U.S.-centered transnational intellectual projects.
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