Title Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (287 pages) Series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Routledge research in postcolonial literatures. Contents Front Cover; Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Tracing an Emerging Tradition; Part I Indo-Caribbean Localities, Feminist Poetics; 1 Recasting Jahaji-Bhain: Plantation History and the Indo-Caribbean Women's Novel in Trinidad, Guyana and Martinique; 2 Domestic Altars, Female Avatars: Hindu Wives and Widows in Lakshmi Persaud's Raise the Lanterns High; 3 "Music and a Story": Sound Writing inRamabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge 4 Carnival Poetics and Politics: Lakshmi Persaud's For the Love of My Name and Niala Maharaj's Like Heaven5 The Broad Breast of the Land: Indo-Caribbean Ecofeminism and Mahadai Das; Part 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 Ramayana and Synaesthetic Remembering in Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's Daughter10 Revising Female Indian Memory: Ramabai Espinet's Reconstruction of an Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in The Swinging Bridge; List of Contributors; Index 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Caribbean literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Caribbean Area Women in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors. Caribbean literature -- Women authors Postcolonialism in literature Women and literature Women in literature Caribbean Area Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Pirbhai, Mariam ISBN 9781136233500 1136233504

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