Dancing around Orientalism Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The performance of belly dancing in the West embodies a central paradox: while invoking Orientalist tropes in its appropriation of Middle Eastern dances, it is cast as a celebratory form of women's empowerment that destabilizes Western patriarchy. Exploring these contradictory claims, the author situates the predicaments of gender and interculturalism that surface in discourses about Western belly dance.

published proceedings

  • TDR-THE DRAMA REVIEW-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES

author list (cited authors)

  • Dox, D.

citation count

  • 26

complete list of authors

  • Dox, Donnalee

publication date

  • January 2006