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008			120305s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780415509671 (hardback)
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082	0	0	_a809.8928709729 _bMAH
100			_aMahabir Joy _93924
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. ;
490	0		_aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;
520			_a"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	_aCaribbean literature _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism. _93925
650		0	_aWomen and literature _93926
650		0	_aWomen in literature. _92165
650		0	_aPostcolonialism in literature. _93927
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. _93928
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. _93929
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. _93930
700	1		_aMahabir, Joy A. I. _93931
700	1		_aPirbhai, Mariam, _93932
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