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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

ISBN: 9780415509671 (hardback) 041550967X (hardback)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

Dewey Class. No.: 809.8928709729 / MAH/C