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Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.