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Author : Prabha Jerrybandan
Release : 2015
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Book Synopsis Unsilencing HI (Stories) of Indo-Caribbean Women by : Prabha Jerrybandan
Download or read book Unsilencing HI (Stories) of Indo-Caribbean Women written by Prabha Jerrybandan. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Ramdin
Release : 2000-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Arising from Bondage by : Ron Ramdin
Download or read book Arising from Bondage written by Ron Ramdin. This book was released on 2000-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising from Bondage is an epic story of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From the 1830's through World War I hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers were shipped from India to the Caribbean and settled in the former British, Dutch, French and Spanish colonies. Like their predecessors, the African slaves, they labored on the sugar estates. Unlike the Africans their status was ambiguous--not actually enslaved yet not entirely free--they fought mightily to achieve power in their new home. Today in the English-speaking Caribbean alone there are one million people of Indian descent and they form the majority in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. This study, based on official documents and archives, as well as previously unpublished material from British, Indian and Caribbean sources, fills a major gap in the history of the Caribbean, India, Britain and European colonialism. It also contributes powerfully to the history of diaspora and migration.
Author : Brinda J. Mehta
Release : 2004
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis Diasporic (dis)locations by : Brinda J. Mehta
Download or read book Diasporic (dis)locations written by Brinda J. Mehta. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indo-Caribbean women writers are virtually invisible in the literary landscape because of cultural and social inhibitions and literary chauvinism. Until recently, the richness and particularities of the experiences of these writers in the field of literature and literary studies were compromised by stereotypical representations of the Indo-Caribbean women that were narrated from a purely masculine or an Afrocentric point of view. This book fills an important gap in an important but underestimated emergent field. The book explores how cultural traditions and female modes of opposition to patriarchal control were transplanted from India and rearticulated in the Indo-Caribbean diaspora to determine whether the idea of cultural continuity is, in fact, a postcolonial reality or a fictionalized myth. kala pani, to Trinidad and Guyana provided courage, determination, self-reliance and sexual independence to their literary granddaughters who in turn used the kala pani as the necessary language and frame of reference to position Indo-Caribbean female subjectivity with equating writing as a pubic declaration of one's identity and right to claim creative agency. The book is of critical interest to those interested in twentieth-century literary studies, Caribbean studies, gender studies, ethnic studies and cultural studies.
Author : Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
Release : 2016-11-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought by : Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
Download or read book Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought written by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein. This book was released on 2016-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken, the authors turn instead to the terrain of gender negotiations among Caribbean men and women within and across racial, class, religious, and political affiliations. Addressing the specific conditions which emerged within the region and highlighting the cross-racial solidarities and the challenges to narratives of purity that have been constitutive of Indo-Caribbean feminist thought, this collection connects to the broader indentureship diaspora and what can be considered post-indentureship feminist thought. Through examinations of literature, activism, art, biography, scholarship and public sphere practices, the collection highlights the complexity and richness of Indo-Caribbean engagements with feminism and social justice.
