Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature /
edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- xi, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
Indo-Caribbean Localities, Feminist Poetics Recastingjahaji-Bhain: Plantation History and the Indo- Caribbean Women's Novel in Trinidad, Guyana and Martinique MARIAM PIRBHAI Domestic Altars, Female Avatars: Hindu Wives and Widows in Laksbmi Persaud's Raise the Lanterns High SUPRIYA M. NAIR "Music and a Story": Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge NJELLE HAMILTON Carnival Poetics and Politics: Laksbmi Persaud's For the Love of My Name and Niala Mabaraj's Like Heaven J. VIJAY MAHARAJ The Broad Breast of the Land: Indo-Caribbean Ecofeminism and Mabadai Das LETIZIA GRAMAGLIA ANDJOSEPHJACKSON Transnational Realities, Diasporic Subjectivities The Kala Pani Imaginary: A Survey of Indo-Caribbean Women's Poetry JOY MAHABIR Interrogating the Presence of the Double Diaspora in Asian- and Indo-Caribbean Women Writers for Children KAREN SANDS-O'CONNOR Indo-Trinidadian Identities and Sexuality: A Survey of Shani Mootoo's Fiction FRANK BIRBALSINGH Illicit Intimacies, the Ramayana and Synaesthetic Remembering in Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's Daughter DONNA MCCORMACK Revising Female Indian Memory: Ramabai Espinet's Reconstruction of an Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in The Swinging Bridge RODOLPHE SOLBIAC
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Caribbean literature--Women authors--History and criticism. Women and literature--Caribbean Area. Women in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / General.