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The Jahaji-Bhain principle : a critical survey of the Indo-Caribbean women's novel, 1990 - 2009
Verfasst von:
Pirbhai, Mariam
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in:
The journal of Commonwealth literature
East Grinstead:
2010
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37 - 56 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Pirbhai, Mariam info |
| In: | The journal of Commonwealth literature |
| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This paper provides the first critical survey of the Indo-Caribbean women’s novel, a distinct sub-genre which now spans approximately two decades. The survey examines the way these novels critically map the trajectory of Indo-Caribbean women’s lives from the moment of colonial servitude to the post-colonial present, through highly individuated expressions of Indian female subjectivity, in a context where sexual and racial politics have so often overdetermined women’s lives. It anchors its discussion of these novels in the feminist poetics of the “jahaji-bhain principle of affiliation”, which advocates a more fluid and racially inclusive application of the ethics of community epitomized by jahaji-hood, a traditionally male-dominant and ethnocentric system of inter-relation borne out of the history of indentureship. Writers discussed include those who have published several or more works in the genre — namely Lakshmi Persaud, Jan Shinebourne, Shani Mootoo and Oonya Kempadoo — as well as first-time novelists Ramabai Espinet, Joy Mahabir, Niala Maharaj, Narmala Shewcharan, Ryhaan Shah and Andrea Gunraj. | |
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