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Transoceanic dialogues : coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean literatures

Title: Transoceanic dialogues : coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean literatures / Véronique Bragard.
Author: Bragard, Véronique.
Publication: Bruxelles, Belgium ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008.

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Description

280 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

This work 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 labourers.

Series Statement

Comparatism & society ; 5

Uniform Title

Collection "Comparatisme et société" ; 5.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-272) and index.

Contents

Mapping Kala Pani voices -- Plurigeneses : coolitude and marine chronotopes -- Transgenerational and geographical passages : the ambivalence of (un)belonging -- Coolie women's transgressive crossings -- Walking roots : reading labor, vegetal, and massala metaphors of identity -- Defying national obstacles : poetics of rapprochement in Guyana and Mauritius -- Coolitude or the crossing of imaginaries.

ISBN

9789052014180
9052014183

LCCN

2008033662

OCLC

ocn243601856
243601856
SCSB-1527499

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library