Ketu H Katrak
Biographic Data
| ID | 228786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ketu H Katrak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ketu H |
| FAMILY NAME | Katrak |
| SIGNATURE | KATRAK K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ama Ata Aidoo: A Fond Remembrance and Farewell
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Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa
Interrogating the “Nation” in Contemporary Indian Dance in India and the Diaspora
Nationalism is a problematic concept since it includes and excludes certain groups on different grounds as it suits the State. India excludes marginalized indigenous, Adivasi tribal population and many in the neglected Northeastern region of the sub-continent from the privileges of citizenship. I discuss such exclusions via performances in the genre of Contemporary Indian dance, by providing a brief overview of this style, its origins, techniques…
Flexible Bodies: British South Asian Dancers In An Age Of Neoliberalism by Anusha Kedhar
Reviewed by: Flexible Bodies: British South Asian Dancers In An Age Of Neoliberalism by Anusha Kedhar Ketu H. Katrak FLEXIBLE BODIES: BRITISH SOUTH ASIAN DANCERS IN AN AGE OF NEOLIBERALISM. By Anusha Kedhar. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 272. Anusha Kedhar’s new monograph on British South Asian dancers and companies from the 1970s to the 2010s offers a unique engagement with “flexible” dancing bodies as they encounter British neoli…
The Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers
Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She examines writers working in the English language, inc…
New Postcolonial Dialectics: An Intercultural Comparison of Indian and Nigerian English Plays
Sarbani Sen Vengadasalam’s book proposes an original comparative exploration of selected plays of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, and Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka through the lens of “intercultural dialecti
Legacies of Loss and Trauma, Healing and Redemption: Cape Town Live Art Festival
Performance, installation, and African-based ritual represent the body as a site of subversion, sexuality, and healing at the 2018 Cape Town Live Art Festival. Provocative performances are located in sites across the city — the Cape Coast Castle (with its 19th-century slave-holding dungeons), a warehouse, a museum, a railway station, and the library
Jay Pather Reimagining Site-Specific Cartographies of Belonging
This essay examines Jay Pather's site-specific work Cityscapes (2002) within a theoretical discussion of the conjuncture and disjuncture of space and race in South Africa. Jay Pather, a South African of Indian ancestry, an innovative choreographer and curator of site-specific works, creatively uses space to inspire social change by providing access and challenging exclusions—social, cultural, political—of black and colored South Africans during a…
African Theatre 15: China, India & the Eastern World
Representations of Gender and Sexuality by Selected Contemporary Indian Dancers
This essay discusses representations of gender and sexuality in Contemporary Indian Dance to delineate this hybrid, multi-layered style involving movement, theatre, multimedia, as performed in India and in the Indian diaspora globally, in particular artistic work in the US and Canada. Contemporary Indian Dancers' progressive gender politics challenges stereotypes of sexual identities. Creative choreography includes scenarios of domestic violence …
Innovations in Contemporary Indian Dance: From Religious and Mythological Roots in Classical Bharatanatyam
Contemporary Indian Dance as a new multi-layered dance genre unfolds at the intersection of Indian classical dance and other movement vocabularies such as modern dance, yoga, martial arts, and theatre techniques. This three-part essay traces a brief history of the "revival" of bharatanatyam in late 19th and early 20th century, then discusses the work of pioneers in Contemporary Indian Dance, Chandralekha, Anita Ratnam, and Hari Krishnan. Discussi…
Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama: Community, Kinship, and Citizenship (review)
The Arts of Resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the Ethno-Global Imagination
Transnational Links: South Asian American Women's Organizations and Autonomous Women's Groups in India
The complex social problems faced by South Asian American domestic workers and by domestic violence victims within this community have led, since the 1980, to the formation and documentation of women's activist organizations in the U.S. The activist organizations in New York City and in Bombay [used interchangeably with Mumbai] India have resulted in lessons and strategies, which are shared transnationally among activists and scholars based in th…
New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the U.S. (review)
Reviewed by: New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the U.S. Ketu H. Katrak (bio) New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the U.S. Edited by Gita Rajan and Shailja Sharma . Palo Alto and London: Stanford University Press, 2006. New Cosmopolitanisms is an important and well-researched scholarly text that advances the dialogue between Asian American Studies and Diaspora and Globalization Studies. The text is a welcome addition to existing scholarship …
Politics of the female body: Postcolonial women writers of the Third World
Section I: Resistances and Reflections
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
Cultural Translation’ of Bharata Natyam into ‘Contemporary Indian Dance’. Second‐generation South Asian Americans and cultural politics in diasporic locations
This essay explores the phenomenon of Contemporary Indian Dance in the Southern California region. Practitioners create new choreography using contemporary, even feminist themes, basing their work on their training in the most popularly studied traditional classical dance style from India, namely Bharata Natyam along with other movement vocabularies such as modern dance, jazz, and yoga. Second‐generation involvement with popular cultural practice…
Body Boundarylands: Locating South Asian Ethnicity in Performance and in Daily Life
In the South Asian diaspora, ethnic identities take varying forms of representation. In this essay, I explore the issues of representation and self-representation of ethnicity in the expressive physical form of dance—the South Indian classical dance style, Bharata Natyam, as practiced in the Southern California area.3 Ethnicity is performed not only on stage in the strictly performative arena complete with costume and lighting, but also in varyin…
Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, and: Asian/American: Historical Crossing of a Racial Frontier, and: Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (review)
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 3, Number 3, October 2000
Tough Times for Feminism
South Asian American Writers: Geography and Memory
(1996). South Asian American Writers: Geography and Memory. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 121-138
Post-colonial Women's Colonised States: Mothering and m-othering in Bessie Head'sA Question of Powerand Kamala Das'My Story
Post‐colonial women's colonized states—political, social, psychological—arise out of personal experiences of patriarchal domination, and out of political impositions of colonial and imperialist exploitations. Women writers from areas of the world like India, Nigeria, Jamaica share a British colonial past and resultant neo‐ and post‐colonial realities that impinge on nearly every aspect of life, for instance, standard English, an imposed language …
African Novels and the Question of Orality
Reading Chinua Achebe: Language and Ideology in Fiction
Simon Gikandi has set out to reveal '...the very nature of (Achebe's) creativity, its prodigious complexity and richness...its paradoxes and ambiguities. This is scholarship of real stature and supersedes all other studies of Achebe's writing. It comes at a good time. Achebe's literary reputation is equal to that of any living author and a substantial critical canon has been established. - G.D. Killam, Professor of English, University of Guelph K…
Reading Chinua Achebe: Language and Ideology in Fiction
Simon Gikandi has set out to reveal '...the very nature of (Achebe's) creativity, its prodigious complexity and richness...its paradoxes and ambiguities. This is scholarship of real stature and supersedes all other studies of Achebe's writing. It comes at a good time. Achebe's literary reputation is equal to that of any living author and a substantial critical canon has been established. - G.D. Killam, Professor of English, University of Guelph K…
Cultural Translation’ of Bharata Natyam into ‘Contemporary Indian Dance’. Second‐generation South Asian Americans and cultural politics in diasporic locations
This essay explores the phenomenon of Contemporary Indian Dance in the Southern California region. Practitioners create new choreography using contemporary, even feminist themes, basing their work on their training in the most popularly studied traditional classical dance style from India, namely Bharata Natyam along with other movement vocabularies such as modern dance, jazz, and yoga. Second‐generation involvement with popular cultural practice…
Section I: Resistances and Reflections
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
Signs and Signals: Popular Culture in Africa
South Asian American Writers: Geography and Memory
(1996). South Asian American Writers: Geography and Memory. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 121-138
Post-colonial Women's Colonised States: Mothering and m-othering in Bessie Head'sA Question of Powerand Kamala Das'My Story
Post‐colonial women's colonized states—political, social, psychological—arise out of personal experiences of patriarchal domination, and out of political impositions of colonial and imperialist exploitations. Women writers from areas of the world like India, Nigeria, Jamaica share a British colonial past and resultant neo‐ and post‐colonial realities that impinge on nearly every aspect of life, for instance, standard English, an imposed language …
Innovations in Contemporary Indian Dance: From Religious and Mythological Roots in Classical Bharatanatyam
Contemporary Indian Dance as a new multi-layered dance genre unfolds at the intersection of Indian classical dance and other movement vocabularies such as modern dance, yoga, martial arts, and theatre techniques. This three-part essay traces a brief history of the "revival" of bharatanatyam in late 19th and early 20th century, then discusses the work of pioneers in Contemporary Indian Dance, Chandralekha, Anita Ratnam, and Hari Krishnan. Discussi…
Womanhood/Motherhood: Variations on a Theme in Selected Novels of Buchi Emecheta
Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: A Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice
The tragic drama of Nigeria's leading playwright, Wole Soyinka, is the focus of this in-depth study. Ketu H. Katrak explores Soyinka's concept of the tragic experience as it relates to Yoruba culture and analyzes the unique features of his theory of tragedy which blends Yoruba traditional drama with Western tragic forms. Opening with a biographical overview of Soyinka's life and career, Katrak addresses the major issues presented by Soyinka in hi…
Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse
Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources
Signs and Signals: Popular Culture in Africa
Reading Chinua Achebe: Language and Ideology in Fiction
Simon Gikandi has set out to reveal '...the very nature of (Achebe's) creativity, its prodigious complexity and richness...its paradoxes and ambiguities. This is scholarship of real stature and supersedes all other studies of Achebe's writing. It comes at a good time. Achebe's literary reputation is equal to that of any living author and a substantial critical canon has been established. - G.D. Killam, Professor of English, University of Guelph K…
African Novels and the Question of Orality
South Asian American Writers: Geography and Memory
(1996). South Asian American Writers: Geography and Memory. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 121-138
Post-colonial Women's Colonised States: Mothering and m-othering in Bessie Head'sA Question of Powerand Kamala Das'My Story
Post‐colonial women's colonized states—political, social, psychological—arise out of personal experiences of patriarchal domination, and out of political impositions of colonial and imperialist exploitations. Women writers from areas of the world like India, Nigeria, Jamaica share a British colonial past and resultant neo‐ and post‐colonial realities that impinge on nearly every aspect of life, for instance, standard English, an imposed language …
Tough Times for Feminism
Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, and: Asian/American: Historical Crossing of a Racial Frontier, and: Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (review)
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 3, Number 3, October 2000
Body Boundarylands: Locating South Asian Ethnicity in Performance and in Daily Life
In the South Asian diaspora, ethnic identities take varying forms of representation. In this essay, I explore the issues of representation and self-representation of ethnicity in the expressive physical form of dance—the South Indian classical dance style, Bharata Natyam, as practiced in the Southern California area.3 Ethnicity is performed not only on stage in the strictly performative arena complete with costume and lighting, but also in varyin…
Cultural Translation’ of Bharata Natyam into ‘Contemporary Indian Dance’. Second‐generation South Asian Americans and cultural politics in diasporic locations
This essay explores the phenomenon of Contemporary Indian Dance in the Southern California region. Practitioners create new choreography using contemporary, even feminist themes, basing their work on their training in the most popularly studied traditional classical dance style from India, namely Bharata Natyam along with other movement vocabularies such as modern dance, jazz, and yoga. Second‐generation involvement with popular cultural practice…
Section I: Resistances and Reflections
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
Politics of the female body: Postcolonial women writers of the Third World
New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the U.S. (review)
Reviewed by: New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the U.S. Ketu H. Katrak (bio) New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the U.S. Edited by Gita Rajan and Shailja Sharma . Palo Alto and London: Stanford University Press, 2006. New Cosmopolitanisms is an important and well-researched scholarly text that advances the dialogue between Asian American Studies and Diaspora and Globalization Studies. The text is a welcome addition to existing scholarship …
The Arts of Resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the Ethno-Global Imagination
Transnational Links: South Asian American Women's Organizations and Autonomous Women's Groups in India
The complex social problems faced by South Asian American domestic workers and by domestic violence victims within this community have led, since the 1980, to the formation and documentation of women's activist organizations in the U.S. The activist organizations in New York City and in Bombay [used interchangeably with Mumbai] India have resulted in lessons and strategies, which are shared transnationally among activists and scholars based in th…
Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama: Community, Kinship, and Citizenship (review)
Representations of Gender and Sexuality by Selected Contemporary Indian Dancers
This essay discusses representations of gender and sexuality in Contemporary Indian Dance to delineate this hybrid, multi-layered style involving movement, theatre, multimedia, as performed in India and in the Indian diaspora globally, in particular artistic work in the US and Canada. Contemporary Indian Dancers' progressive gender politics challenges stereotypes of sexual identities. Creative choreography includes scenarios of domestic violence …
Innovations in Contemporary Indian Dance: From Religious and Mythological Roots in Classical Bharatanatyam
Contemporary Indian Dance as a new multi-layered dance genre unfolds at the intersection of Indian classical dance and other movement vocabularies such as modern dance, yoga, martial arts, and theatre techniques. This three-part essay traces a brief history of the "revival" of bharatanatyam in late 19th and early 20th century, then discusses the work of pioneers in Contemporary Indian Dance, Chandralekha, Anita Ratnam, and Hari Krishnan. Discussi…
African Theatre 15: China, India & the Eastern World
Jay Pather Reimagining Site-Specific Cartographies of Belonging
This essay examines Jay Pather's site-specific work Cityscapes (2002) within a theoretical discussion of the conjuncture and disjuncture of space and race in South Africa. Jay Pather, a South African of Indian ancestry, an innovative choreographer and curator of site-specific works, creatively uses space to inspire social change by providing access and challenging exclusions—social, cultural, political—of black and colored South Africans during a…
Legacies of Loss and Trauma, Healing and Redemption: Cape Town Live Art Festival
Performance, installation, and African-based ritual represent the body as a site of subversion, sexuality, and healing at the 2018 Cape Town Live Art Festival. Provocative performances are located in sites across the city — the Cape Coast Castle (with its 19th-century slave-holding dungeons), a warehouse, a museum, a railway station, and the library
The Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers
Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She examines writers working in the English language, inc…
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