Shameem Black (Yale University Assistant Professor)

Flexible India

Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231206020
• ISBN-10: 023120602X
• Artikelnr.: 68166856

Autorenporträt

Shameem Black

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Prologue: The Bracelet
1. Setting Up: Yoga's Flexible Forms
2. Conducting Mass Practice: India's Vision for Yoga
3. Aligning Both Hands: Yoga in Indian Fiction
4. Assuming Corpse Pose: Yoga in U.S. Popular Culture
5. Bending Over Backward: Yoga's Precarious Work
6. Framing New Parts: Yoga Through Diasporic Critique
7. Lying Out: Spectral Yoga
Epilogue: The Moon
Notes
Bibliography
Index