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245 0 0 _aCritical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature /
_cedited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai
260 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2013.
300 _axi, 274 p. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aIndo-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
650 0 _aCaribbean literature
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aWomen and literature
_zCaribbean Area.
650 0 _aWomen in literature.
650 0 _aPostcolonialism in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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