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Author Mehta, Brinda J.

Title Diasporic (dis)locations : Indo-Caribbean women writers negotiate the kala pani / Brinda Mehta
Published Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 269 pages)
Summary This work explores how cultural traditions and female modes of opposition to patriarchal control were transplanted from India and rearticulated in the Indo-Caribbean diaspora to determine whether the idea of "cultural continuity" is, in fact, a postcolonial reality or a fictionalized myth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- Caribbean Area
Women authors, Caribbean.
Women authors, Hindi -- Trinidad and Tobago
Women authors, Hindi -- Guyana
Women, East Indian -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Intellectual life
Women, East Indian -- Guyana -- Intellectual life
Women, East Indian -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Social life and customs
Women, East Indian -- Guyana -- Social life and customs
Feminism and literature -- Caribbean Area
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors
Feminism and literature
Women and literature
Women authors, Caribbean
Women authors, Hindi
Caribbean Area
Guyana
Trinidad and Tobago
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435611283
1435611284
Other Titles Indo-Caribbean women writers negotiate the kala pani