South Asian migration during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was largely comprised of indentured labourers sent to British colonies after the 1833 abolition of slavery. Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji.
Mariam Pirbhai perceptively identifies common patterns,...
South Asian migration during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was largely comprised of indentured labourers sent to British colonies af...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
