TY - BOOK AU - Bragard,VĂ©ronique TI - Transoceanic dialogues : coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean literatures SN - 9789052014180 U1 - 860.99729 PY - 2008/// CY - Bruxelles, Belgium, New York PB - P.I.E. Peter Lang KW - Caribbean Literature KW - History and Criticism KW - Imperialism in Literature KW - Indian Ocean Literature N1 - 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 ER -