Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature /
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Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2013. |
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Description: | xi, 274 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 41 Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 41. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8913744 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Tracing an Emerging Tradtition
- I. Indo-Caribbean Localities, Feminist Poetics
- 1. Re-Casting Jahaji-Bhain: Plantation History
- 2. Domestic Altars, Female Avatars: Hindu Wives and Widows in Lakshmi Persaud's Raise the Lanterns High
- 3. "Music and a Story": Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge
- 4. Carnival Poetics and Politics: Lakshmi Persaud's For the Love of My Name and Niala Maharaj's Like Heaven
- 5. The Broad Breast of the Land: Indo-Caribbean Ecofeminism and Mahadai Das
- II. Transnational Realities, Diasporic Subjectivities
- 6. The Kala Pani Imaginary: A Survey of Indo-Caribbean Women's Poetry
- 7. Interrogating the Presence of the Double Diaspora in Asian- and Indo-Caribbean Women Writers for Children
- 8. Indo-Trinidadian Identities and Sexuality: A Survey of Shani Mootoo's Fiction
- 9. Illicit Intimacies, the Rmyana and Synaesthetic Remembering in Shani Mootoo's cValmiki's Daughter
- 10. Revising Female Indian Memory: Ramabai Espinet's Construction of an Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in The Swinging Bridge
- Bibliography
- Contributors