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Diasporic (Dis)Locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani

Diasporic (Dis)Locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani

Mehta, Brinda J.

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Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 9766401578
ISBN13: 9789766401573
Publisher: Univ Of The West Indies Pr
Published: Aug 31 2004
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Indo-Caribbean women writers are virtually invisible in the literary landscape because of cultural and social inhibitions and literary chauvinism.
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. The Indian women who braved the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic, of the 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

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