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Titre(s) : Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature [Texte imprimé] / edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2013
Description matérielle : xi, 274 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 41
Lien à la collection : Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"--
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Mahabir, Joy Allison Indira (1966-....). Éditeur scientifique
Pirbhai, Mariam (1970-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Littérature caribéenne -- Femmes écrivains -- Thèmes, motifs
Femmes et littérature -- Région caraïbe
Femmes -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415509671 (hardback). - ISBN 041550967X (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435307489
Notice n° :
FRBNF43530748
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