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(Il)legible Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Contemporary Dance in Senegal

Description:

This dissertation elucidates the contemporary dance studio and stage in twenty-first century Senegal as privileged sites of knowledge production about gender and sexuality. Entangled within local and global dance lineages, funding structures, and modes of circulation, contemporary choreographers perform their bodies in ways that challenge predominant narratives, both those imagined...

Keyword:

Sexuality, Gender, Contemporary dance, Performance studies, Senegal, and Germaine Acogny

Subject:

Gender studies, Dance, and African studies

Creator:

Swanson, Amy Elizabeth

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_662490 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14644