Dhana Underwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 4155413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dhana Underwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dhana |
| FAMILY NAME | Underwood |
| SIGNATURE | UNDERWOOD D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La Bayadère: La femme représentée et la femme représentante de l'Inde coloniale au XIXe siècle
Nineteenth-century French artists frequently figure the Indian female dancer, or bayadère , in opera-libretti, travel narratives and adventure and love stories. She occupies a central part in the imaginary vision of the mystic and colonized East and personifies the feminine and the exotic Other. The intention is to analyse how the mainly non-verbal performative structure of Indian dance and the context of European spectators who cannot interpret …
Aux délices de Mahé: A selected, critical and annotated bibliography of French-language representations of India 1763-2002
This is the first bibliography to list and to comment on representations of India in French literary and historical texts, with a critical and comparative focus on the fact of British Indian Empire. The list will aid the much-needed comparative study of anglo- and francophone epistemologies in colonial and post-colonial India. For anglophone post-colonial scholars, it opens up the hitherto neglected fields of: French-language writing about Britis…
Déesse sexualisée et/ou victime? La femme hindoue entre les colonialismes anglais et français en Inde
Both the British (1608–1947) and the French (1664–1954) states have a long history of involvement in India and both created an equality of oppression, applying the same type of orientalistic interpretation to women as they did to men. However, on occasions, the Hindu woman becomes an important vector in the colonizers' attempts to change cultural practices such as suttee (widow burning). This article uses Francophone sources (drama, novels and le…
La Bayadère: La femme représentée et la femme représentante de l'Inde coloniale au XIXe siècle
Nineteenth-century French artists frequently figure the Indian female dancer, or bayadère , in opera-libretti, travel narratives and adventure and love stories. She occupies a central part in the imaginary vision of the mystic and colonized East and personifies the feminine and the exotic Other. The intention is to analyse how the mainly non-verbal performative structure of Indian dance and the context of European spectators who cannot interpret …
Déesse sexualisée et/ou victime? La femme hindoue entre les colonialismes anglais et français en Inde
Both the British (1608–1947) and the French (1664–1954) states have a long history of involvement in India and both created an equality of oppression, applying the same type of orientalistic interpretation to women as they did to men. However, on occasions, the Hindu woman becomes an important vector in the colonizers' attempts to change cultural practices such as suttee (widow burning). This article uses Francophone sources (drama, novels and le…
La Bayadère: La femme représentée et la femme représentante de l'Inde coloniale au XIXe siècle
Nineteenth-century French artists frequently figure the Indian female dancer, or bayadère , in opera-libretti, travel narratives and adventure and love stories. She occupies a central part in the imaginary vision of the mystic and colonized East and personifies the feminine and the exotic Other. The intention is to analyse how the mainly non-verbal performative structure of Indian dance and the context of European spectators who cannot interpret …
Aux délices de Mahé: A selected, critical and annotated bibliography of French-language representations of India 1763-2002
This is the first bibliography to list and to comment on representations of India in French literary and historical texts, with a critical and comparative focus on the fact of British Indian Empire. The list will aid the much-needed comparative study of anglo- and francophone epistemologies in colonial and post-colonial India. For anglophone post-colonial scholars, it opens up the hitherto neglected fields of: French-language writing about Britis…
Art (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · French (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)