Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments

Book Overview

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

1. Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Lisa Outar, "Introduction: Interrogating an Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology"

Part 1: Tracing the Emergence of Indo-Caribbean Feminist Perspectives

2. Patricia Mohammed, "A Vindication for Indo-Caribbean Feminism"

3. Preeia D. Surajbali, "Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology: A Personal and Scholarly Journey"

4. Andil Gosine, "My Mother's Baby: Wrecking Work after Indentureship"

Part 2: Transgressive Storytelling

5. Alison Klein, "'Seeing Greater Distances': An Interview with Peggy Mohan on the Voyages of Indo-Caribbean Women"

6. Anita Baksh, "Indentureship, Land, and Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought in the Literature of Rajkumari Singh and Mahadai Das"

7. Lisa Outar, "Post-Indentureship Cosmopolitan Feminism: Indo-Caribbean and Indo-Mauritian Women's Writing and the Public Sphere"

8. Tuli Chatterji, "'Mini Death and a Rebirth': Talking the Crossing in Shani Mootoo's Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab"

Part 3: Art, Archives and Cultural Practices

9. Kavita Ashana Singh, "Comparative Caribbean Feminisms: Jahaji Bhain in Carnival"

10. Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan, "Unsettling the Politics of Identity and Sexuality Among Same-Sex Loving Indo-Trinidadian Women"

11. Angelique V. Nixon, "Seeing Difference: Visual Feminist Praxis, Identity and Desire in Indo-Caribbean Women's Art and Knowledge"

12. Lisa Outar, "Art, Violence and Non-Return: An Interview with Guadeloupean Artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary"

Part 4: Dougla Feminisms

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, "Dougla Poetics and Politics in Indian Feminist Thought: Reflection and Reconceptualization"

14. Sue Ann Barratt, "Nicki Minaj, Indian In/Visibility and the Paradox of Dougla Feminism"

15. Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, "Cutlass: Objects Toward a Dougla Feminist Theory of Representation"

Part 5: New Masculinities and Femininities

16. Rhoda Reddock, "Indo-Caribbean Masculinities and Indo-Caribbean Feminisms: Where are We Now?"

17. Michael Niblett, "Belaboring Masculinity: Ecology, Work, and the Body in Michel Ponnamah's D?rive de Josaphat"

18. Stephanie L. Jackson, "From Stigma to Shakti: The Politics of Indo-Guyanese Women's Trance and the Transformative Potentials of Ecstatic Goddess Worship in New York City"

Epilogue

Shalini Puri

Postscript

Shivanee M. Ramlochan

Notes on Contributors

Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349720364
• ISBN13: 9781349720361
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"