Diasporic (dis)locations : Indo-Caribbean women writers negotiate the kala pani /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mehta, Brinda J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
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.
Femmes et littérature > Caraïbes (Région)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Caribbean literature (English) > Women authors.
Feminism and literature.
Women and literature.
Women authors, Hindi.
Caribbean Area.
Guyana.
Trinidad and Tobago.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 269 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259) and index.
ISBN:9781435611283
1435611284

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