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Brinda J. Mehta
Kingston, Jamaica
University of the West Indies Press
Diasporic (dis)locations :Indo-Caribbean women writers negotiate the kala pani
2004
9766401578
9789766401573
269 pages
Caribbean Literature
Caribbean literature (English) - Women authors
Women and literature - Caribbean Area.
Women authors, Caribbean.
Women authors, Hindi - Trinidad and Tobago.
Women authors, Hindi - Guyana.
Women, East Indian - Intellectual life. - Trinidad and Tobago
Women, East Indian - Intellectual life. - Guyana
Women, East Indian - Social life and customs. - Trinidad and Tobago
Women, East Indian - Social life and customs. - Guyana
Feminism and literature - Caribbean Area.
Contents | 8 |
Acknowledgements | 10 |
Introduction | 12 |
1. Framing Indo-Caribbean Female Subjectivity | 39 |
2. Engendering Indo-Caribbean and Afro-Caribbean Feminist Dialogues | 74 |
3. Creativity, Identity and Culinary Agency | 117 |
4. Orality, Indo-Caribbean Feminism and Aji Culture | 143 |
5. From Dispossession to Recuperation | 166 |
6. Sexuality, Violence and the Female Body Erotic | 203 |
Conclusion | 238 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 260 |
Index | 271 |