Indo-Caribbean feminist thought : genealogies, theories, enactments /: genealogies, theories, enactments. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Lisa Outar.
• Editors: Hosein, Gabrielle; Outar, Lisa
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Interrogating an€Indo-ƯCaribbean Feminist Epistemology; Feminist Navigations; Post-Indentureship Feminisms; Chapter Outlines; Part 1: Tracing the€Emergence of€Indo-Caribbean Feminist Perspectives; Part 2: Transgressive Storytelling; Part 3: Art, Archives, and€Cultural Practices; Part 4: Dougla Feminisms; Part 5: New Masculinities and€Femininities; Closing Thoughts; Works Cited; Part I: Tracing the Emergence of Indo- Caribbean Feminist Perspectives; Chapter 2: A Vindication for€Indo-Caribbean Feminism. Autobiographical InsightsEducation as€Revolutionary Praxis; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology: A€Personal and€Scholarly Journey; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 4: My Mother's Baby: Wrecking Work After Indentureship; The Wrecking Work of€Indentureship; Wrecking Names; Wrecking Gender; Wrecking Time and€Space; Conclusion; Works Cited; Part II: Transgressive Storytelling; Chapter 5: "Seeing Greater Distances": An€Interview with€Peggy Mohan on€the€Voyages of€Indo-ƯCaribbean Women; Works Cited. Chapter 6: Indentureship, Land, and€Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought in€the€Literature of€Rajkumari Singh and€Mahadai DasRajkumari Singh's Vision of€Art and€Politics; Mahadai Das' Connection to€Ancestry and€Land; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7: Post-Indentureship Cosmopolitan Feminism: Indo-Caribbean and€Indo-Mauritian Women's Writing and€the€Public Sphere; The Spectator, Feminism and€the€Public Sphere; Cosmopolitan Feminism and€A Silent Life; Indo-Mauritian Feminist Interventions; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited. Chapter 8: "Mini Death, and€a€Rebirth": Talking the€Crossing in€Shani Mootoo's Moving Forward Sideways Like a€CrabWorks Cited; Part III: Art, Archives, and Cultural Practices; Chapter 9: Comparative Caribbean Feminisms: Jahaji-Ưbhain in€Carnival; Minimally Incommensurable, or Feminist Appropriation?; Minimally Incommensurable Jahaji-bhain; Translating Jamette to€Jahaji-bhain; Doubly Diasporic Jahaji-bhain; "The Observer Does Not See Everything"; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 10: (Un)Settling the€Politics of€Identity and€Sexuality Among Indo-Trinidadian Same-ƯSex Loving Women. Multivalent "Indo-Trinidadian" Experiences"Respectability" and€"Authenticity"; Bisexuality Is an€Epistemological and€Ontological Position; " & and€Then You€Go€Online": Cyber-Activism and€Political Consciousness; Conclusion: Indo-Trinidadian Bisexual Politics; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 11: Seeing Difference: Visual Feminist Praxis, Identity, and€Desire in€Indo-Caribbean Women's Art and€Knowledge; Introduction; Defining and€Troubling Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought; Terrains of€Female Desire: Woman Loving Women and€Radical Acts of€Self-Care; Works Cited.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 306.071; Literature; Culture -- Study and teaching; Literature -- Philosophy; Literature, Modern -- 20th century; America -- Literatures; Sociology; Sex (Psychology); Gender expression; Gender identity; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Feminism; Literary Criticism -- General; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Social Science -- General; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literature & literary studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Literary theory; Cultural studies; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900; Caribbean Area; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137559371; 1137559373
• Related ISBNs: 9781137570796; 1137570792
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebrary, viewed June 2, 2017).
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