Flexible India - Yoga''s Cultural and Political Tensions

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Shameem Black is associate professor in the School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University. She is the author of Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Late Twentieth-Century Novels (Columbia, 2010).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Shameem Black, Shameem (Assistant Professor Black
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2023
• EAN: 9780231206020
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20602-0
• No. of pages: 304
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