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Transoceanic Dialogues: Coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Literatures
Author:
Veronique Bragard
ISBN:
9789052014180
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2008
Pages:
280
Size:
15 x 22 cm
Weight:
395 grams
Price:
INR
1240.00
About the Book
At the point in time when the abolition of slavery was being celebrated, another system of servitude was underway: indentureship. Indenture labor resulted in the transportation of one million Indians – called coolies – into British and French colonies. Unable or unwilling to return, a great majority of them stayed in the countries they had been shipped to and participated in the creation of new, creole cultures.This book offers a close reading of literary works in French and in English by women writers whose ancestors originally came to the Caribbean or across the Indian Ocean as indentured laborers. Positing a dynamic and open approach, the author adopts the concept of coolitude to examine how their works capture, on the one hand, the Indian element of the creolization process and, on the other hand, the creolization of the Indian diasporic inheritance.Organized around the paradigm of the crossing – historical, geographical, gender-based, corporeal, identitary – this study offers insightful transoceanic, transregional and transcolonial dialogues between Caribbean and Indian Ocean literatures. Focusing on themes of displacement, entrapment, metamorphosis and marginalization, the author explores the entanglements and tensions that characterize creole pluricultural landscapes while she underscores Caribbean and Mauritian literature’s engagement with alterity.
About the Author
Veronique Bragard
Véronique Bragard, Ph.D., is a lecturer and researcher at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). She has published on Indo-Caribbean literature, coolitude and the creative works of Ananda Devi and Khal Torabully in several international journals in English and French.
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