Bragard, Véronique

Transoceanic dialogues : coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean literatures / Véronique Bragard - Bruxelles, Belgium ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008. - 280 p. : col. ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Mapping Kala Pani Voices -- Ch. 2. Plurigeneses. Coolitude and Marine Chronotopes -- Ch. 3. Transgenerational and Geographical passages. The Ambivalence of (Un)belonging -- Ch. 4. Coolie Women's Transgressive Crossings -- Ch. 5. Walking Roots. Reading Labor, Vegetal, and Massala Metaphors of Identity -- Ch. 6. Defying National Obstacles. Poetics of Rapprochment in Guyana and Mauritius -- Conclusion : Coolitude or the Crossing of Imaginaries

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Caribbean Literature--History and Criticism
Imperialism in Literature
Indian Ocean Literature--History and Criticism

860.99729 / BRA/T