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Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature / (Record no. 27696)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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fixed length control field	120305s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9780415509671 (hardback)
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title	eng
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	809.8928709729
Item number	MAH
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name	Mahabir Joy
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature /
Statement of responsibility, etc	edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication	New York :
Name of publisher	Routledge,
Year of publication	2013.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	xi, 274 p. ;
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement	Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	"This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay the framework of an emerging and growing field, but also critically situate internationally acclaimed writers such as Shani Mootoo, Lakshmi Persaud and Ramabai Espinet within this emerging tradition. Indo-Caribbean women writers provide a fresh new perspective in Caribbean literature, be it in their unique representations of plantation history, anti-colonial movements, diasporic identities, feminisms, ethnicity and race, or contemporary Caribbean societies and culture. The book offers a theoretical reading of the poetics, politics and cultural traditions that inform Indo-Caribbean women's writing, arguing that while women writers work with and through postcolonial and Caribbean cultural theories, they also respond to a distinctive set of influences and realities specific to their positioning within the Indo-Caribbean community and the wider national, regional and global imaginary. Contributors visit the overlap between national and transnational engagements in Indo-Caribbean women's literature, considering the writers' response to local or nationally specific contexts, and the writers' response to the diasporic and transnational modalities of Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean communities"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Caribbean literature
General subdivision	Women authors
--	History and criticism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Women and literature
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Women in literature.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Postcolonialism in literature.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Mahabir, Joy A. I.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Pirbhai, Mariam,
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Koha item type	Books

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Lost status	Damaged status	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Cost, normal purchase price	Full call number	Accession Number	Koha item type
		Central Library	Central Library	General Section	21/12/2013	BBC	9061.00	809.8928709729 MAH	027242	Books