Diasporic Dis(Locations)
Subtitle: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the "Kala Pani"
Publisher: University of West Indies Press
Published: August 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9789766401573
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Women Authors; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Caribbean islands; Caribbean & Latin American
First sentence: Indo-Caribbean women writers from Guyana and Trinidad have been subjected to a particular literary and cultural eclipsing by their black counterparts, by the diasporic hegemony of South Asian writers from North America and Britain, by Indian men and by women writers from India.