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Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature, edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai
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- Summary
- "This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay the framework of an emerging and growing field, but also critically situate internationally acclaimed writers such as Shani Mootoo, Lakshmi Persaud and Ramabai Espinet within this emerging tradition. Indo-Caribbean women writers provide a fresh new perspective in Caribbean literature, be it in their unique representations of plantation history, anti-colonial movements, diasporic identities, feminisms, ethnicity and race, or contemporary Caribbean societies and culture. The book offers a theoretical reading of the poetics, politics and cultural traditions that inform Indo-Caribbean women's writing, arguing that while women writers work with and through postcolonial and Caribbean cultural theories, they also respond to a distinctive set of influences and realities specific to their positioning within the Indo-Caribbean community and the wider national, regional and global imaginary. Contributors visit the overlap between national and transnational engagements in Indo-Caribbean women's literature, considering the writers' response to local or nationally specific contexts, and the writers' response to the diasporic and transnational modalities of Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean communities"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 274 pages
- Contents
-
- Recasting Jahaji-Bhain: plantation history and the Indo-Caribbean women's novel in Trinidad, Guyana, and Martinique / Mariam Pirbhai
- Domestic altars, female avatars: Hindu wives and widows in Lakshmi Persaud's Raise the lanterns high / Supriya M. Nair
- "Music and a story": sound writing in Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge / Njelle Hamilton
- Carnival poetics and politics: Lakshmi Persaud's For the love of my name and Niala Maharaj's Like heaven / J. Vijay Maharaj
- The broad breast of the land: Indo-Caribbean ecofeminism and Mahadai Das / Letizia Gramaglia and Joseph Jackson
- The Kala Pani imaginary: a survey of Indo-Caribbean women's poetry / Joy Mahabir
- Interrogating the presence of the double diaspora in Asian- and Indo- Caribbean women writers for children / Karen Sands O'Connor
- Indo-Trinidadian identities and sexuality: a survey of Shani Mootoo's fiction / Frank Birbalsingh
- Illicit intimacies: the Ramayana and synaesthetic remembering in Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's daughter / Mccormack
- Revising female Indian memory: Ramabai Espinet's reconstruction of an Indo-Trinidadian diaspora in The swinging bridge / Rodolphe Solbiac
- Isbn
- 9780415509671
- Label
- Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature
- Title
- Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai
- Subject
-
- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean literature -- Women authors
- Caribbean literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Frauenliteratur
- Karibik
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian | General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postkoloniale Literatur
- Women and literature
- Women and literature -- Caribbean Area
- Women in literature
- Women in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay the framework of an emerging and growing field, but also critically situate internationally acclaimed writers such as Shani Mootoo, Lakshmi Persaud and Ramabai Espinet within this emerging tradition. Indo-Caribbean women writers provide a fresh new perspective in Caribbean literature, be it in their unique representations of plantation history, anti-colonial movements, diasporic identities, feminisms, ethnicity and race, or contemporary Caribbean societies and culture. The book offers a theoretical reading of the poetics, politics and cultural traditions that inform Indo-Caribbean women's writing, arguing that while women writers work with and through postcolonial and Caribbean cultural theories, they also respond to a distinctive set of influences and realities specific to their positioning within the Indo-Caribbean community and the wider national, regional and global imaginary. Contributors visit the overlap between national and transnational engagements in Indo-Caribbean women's literature, considering the writers' response to local or nationally specific contexts, and the writers' response to the diasporic and transnational modalities of Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean communities"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN849.C3
- LC item number
- C76 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1966-
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Mahabir, Joy A. I.
- Pirbhai, Mariam
- Series statement
- Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
- Series volume
- 41
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Caribbean literature
- Women and literature
- Women in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Caribbean literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Women and literature
- Women in literature
- Caribbean Area
- Frauenliteratur
- Postkoloniale Literatur
- Karibik
- Label
- Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature, edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Recasting Jahaji-Bhain: plantation history and the Indo-Caribbean women's novel in Trinidad, Guyana, and Martinique / Mariam Pirbhai -- Domestic altars, female avatars: Hindu wives and widows in Lakshmi Persaud's Raise the lanterns high / Supriya M. Nair -- "Music and a story": sound writing in Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge / Njelle Hamilton -- Carnival poetics and politics: Lakshmi Persaud's For the love of my name and Niala Maharaj's Like heaven / J. Vijay Maharaj -- The broad breast of the land: Indo-Caribbean ecofeminism and Mahadai Das / Letizia Gramaglia and Joseph Jackson -- The Kala Pani imaginary: a survey of Indo-Caribbean women's poetry / Joy Mahabir -- Interrogating the presence of the double diaspora in Asian- and Indo- Caribbean women writers for children / Karen Sands O'Connor -- Indo-Trinidadian identities and sexuality: a survey of Shani Mootoo's fiction / Frank Birbalsingh -- Illicit intimacies: the Ramayana and synaesthetic remembering in Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's daughter / Mccormack -- Revising female Indian memory: Ramabai Espinet's reconstruction of an Indo-Trinidadian diaspora in The swinging bridge / Rodolphe Solbiac
- Control code
- 768171543
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 274 pages
- Isbn
- 9780415509671
- Lccn
- 2012007231
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)768171543
- Label
- Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature, edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Recasting Jahaji-Bhain: plantation history and the Indo-Caribbean women's novel in Trinidad, Guyana, and Martinique / Mariam Pirbhai -- Domestic altars, female avatars: Hindu wives and widows in Lakshmi Persaud's Raise the lanterns high / Supriya M. Nair -- "Music and a story": sound writing in Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge / Njelle Hamilton -- Carnival poetics and politics: Lakshmi Persaud's For the love of my name and Niala Maharaj's Like heaven / J. Vijay Maharaj -- The broad breast of the land: Indo-Caribbean ecofeminism and Mahadai Das / Letizia Gramaglia and Joseph Jackson -- The Kala Pani imaginary: a survey of Indo-Caribbean women's poetry / Joy Mahabir -- Interrogating the presence of the double diaspora in Asian- and Indo- Caribbean women writers for children / Karen Sands O'Connor -- Indo-Trinidadian identities and sexuality: a survey of Shani Mootoo's fiction / Frank Birbalsingh -- Illicit intimacies: the Ramayana and synaesthetic remembering in Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's daughter / Mccormack -- Revising female Indian memory: Ramabai Espinet's reconstruction of an Indo-Trinidadian diaspora in The swinging bridge / Rodolphe Solbiac
- Control code
- 768171543
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 274 pages
- Isbn
- 9780415509671
- Lccn
- 2012007231
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)768171543
Subject
- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean literature -- Women authors
- Caribbean literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Frauenliteratur
- Karibik
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian | General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postkoloniale Literatur
- Women and literature
- Women and literature -- Caribbean Area
- Women in literature
- Women in literature
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