Contradictory Indianness : : Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary / / Atreyee Phukan.
As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their reimagining of Indianness in the region. Whereas,...
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Phukan, Atreyee, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Contradictory Indianness : Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary / Atreyee Phukan. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Critical Caribbean Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Indenture Passage and Poetics in Totaram Sanadhya and LalBihari Sharma -- 2 Repatriation and the “Indian Problem” in Ismith Khan’s The Jumbie Bird (1960) -- 3 The Trope of the Rice Field in Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body (1972) -- 4 (En)Gendering Indenture in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1992) -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their reimagining of Indianness in the region. Whereas, for instance, forms of Indo-Caribbean cultural expression in music, cuisine, or religion are more readily accepted as creolizing (thus, Caribbeanizing) processes, an Indo-Caribbean literary imaginary has rarely been studied as such. Discussing the work of Ismith Khan, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Totaram Sanadhya, LalBihari Sharma, and Shani Mootoo, Contradictory Indianness maintains that the writers' engagement with the regional and transnational poetics of the Caribbean underscores symbolic bridges between cultural worlds conventionally set apart—the Africanized and Indianized—and distinguishes between cultural worlds assumed to be the same—indenture and South Asian Indianness. This book privileges Indo-Caribbean fiction as a creolizing literary imaginary to broaden its study beyond a narrow canon that has, inadvertently or not, enabled monolithic and unidimensional perceptions of Indian cultural identity and evolution in the Caribbean, and continued to impose a fragmentary and disconnected study of (post)indenture aesthetics within indenture’s own transnational cartography. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Indian, Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, colonization, migration, migrants, immigrants, immigration, art, music, culture, Caribbean Studies, South Asian, Desi, Literature, Ismith Khan, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Totaram Sanadhya, LalBihari Sharma, Shani Mootoo, creole, creolization, indentured servitude. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English 9783110993752 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 9783110993738 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110766479 https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978829138?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978829138 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978829138/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Indenture Passage and Poetics in Totaram Sanadhya and LalBihari Sharma -- 2 Repatriation and the “Indian Problem” in Ismith Khan’s The Jumbie Bird (1960) -- 3 The Trope of the Rice Field in Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body (1972) -- 4 (En)Gendering Indenture in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1992) -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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