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Contradictory Indianness : indenture, creolization, and literary imaginary /

"As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their reimagining of Indianness in the region. Whe...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Phukan, Atreyee (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Collection:Critical Caribbean studies.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Indenture, creolization, and literary imaginary
  • Passage and poetics in Totaram Sanadhya and LalBihari Sharma
  • Repatriation and the "Indian problem" in Ismith Khan's The Jumbie bird (1960)
  • The trope of the ricefield in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No pain like this body (1972)
  • (En)Gendering indenture in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night (1992).