Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415509671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 286 str.

Joy Mahabir; Mariam Pirbhai

Opis

This text presents a collection of Indo-Caribbean women's writing. The book offers 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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Tracing an Emerging Tradtition  Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai I. Indo-Caribbean Localities, Feminist Poetics 1. Re-Casting  Jahaji-Bhain: Plantation History and the Indo-Caribbean Women’s Novel in Trinidad, Guyana and Martinique  Mariam Pirbhai 2. Domestic Altars, Female Avatars: Hindu Wives and Widows in Lakshmi Persaud’s Raise the Lanterns High  Supriya Nair 3. "Music and a Story": Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge  Njelle Hamilton 4. Carnival Poetics and Politics: Lakshmi Persaud’s For the Love of My Name and Niala Maharaj’s Like Heaven  J. Vijay Maharaj 5. The Broad Breast of the Land: Indo-Caribbean Ecofeminism and Mahadai Das  Letizia Gramaglia and Joseph Jackson II. Transnational Realities, Diasporic Subjectivities 6. The Kala Pani Imaginary: A Survey of Indo-Caribbean Women’s Poetry  Joy Mahabir 7. Interrogating the Presence of the Double Diaspora in Asian- and Indo-Caribbean Women Writers for Children  Karen Sands O’Connor 8. Indo-Trinidadian Identities and Sexuality: A Survey of Shani Mootoo’s Fiction  Frank Birbalsingh 9. Illicit Intimacies, the Rāmāyana and Synaesthetic Remembering in Shani Mootoo’s Valmiki’s Daughter  Donna McCormack 10. Revising Female Indian Memory: Ramabai Espinet’s Construction of an Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in The Swinging Bridge  Rodolphe Solbiac  Bibliography  Contributors

O autorze

Joy Mahabir is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Suffolk County Community College of the State University of New York, U.S.A.

Mariam Pirbhai is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.