1st Edition
Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature
Introduction: Tracing an Emerging Tradtition Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai I. Indo-Caribbean Localities, Feminist Poetics 1. Re-Casting Jahaji-Bhain: Plantation History and the Indo-Caribbean Women’s Novel in Trinidad, Guyana and Martinique Mariam Pirbhai 2. Domestic Altars, Female Avatars: Hindu Wives and Widows in Lakshmi Persaud’s Raise the Lanterns High Supriya Nair 3. "Music and a Story": Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge Njelle Hamilton 4. Carnival Poetics and Politics: Lakshmi Persaud’s For the Love of My Name and Niala Maharaj’s Like Heaven J. Vijay Maharaj 5. The Broad Breast of the Land: Indo-Caribbean Ecofeminism and Mahadai Das Letizia Gramaglia and Joseph Jackson II. Transnational Realities, Diasporic Subjectivities 6. The Kala Pani Imaginary: A Survey of Indo-Caribbean Women’s Poetry Joy Mahabir 7. Interrogating the Presence of the Double Diaspora in Asian- and Indo-Caribbean Women Writers for Children Karen Sands O’Connor 8. Indo-Trinidadian Identities and Sexuality: A Survey of Shani Mootoo’s Fiction Frank Birbalsingh 9. Illicit Intimacies, the Rāmāyana and Synaesthetic Remembering in Shani Mootoo’s Valmiki’s Daughter Donna McCormack 10. Revising Female Indian Memory: Ramabai Espinet’s Construction of an Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in The Swinging Bridge Rodolphe Solbiac Bibliography Contributors
Biography
Joy Mahabir is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Suffolk County Community College of the State University of New York, U.S.A.
Mariam Pirbhai is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
