Indo-caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments (new Caribbean Studies)
by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein /
2016 / English / PDF
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Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and
activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the
specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to
Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production.
Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the
forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken,
the authors turn instead to the terrain of gender negotiations
among Caribbean men and women within and across racial, class,
religious, and political affiliations. Addressing the
specific conditions which emerged within the region and
highlighting the cross-racial solidarities and the challenges to
narratives of purity that have been constitutive of
Indo-Caribbean feminist thought, this collection connects to the
broader indentureship diaspora and what can be considered
post-indentureship feminist thought. Through examinations of
literature, activism, art, biography, scholarship and public
sphere practices, the collection highlights the complexity and
richness of Indo-Caribbean engagements with feminism and social
justice.
Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and
activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the
specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to
Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production.
Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the
forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken,
the authors turn instead to the terrain of gender negotiations
among Caribbean men and women within and across racial, class,
religious, and political affiliations. Addressing the
specific conditions which emerged within the region and
highlighting the cross-racial solidarities and the challenges to
narratives of purity that have been constitutive of
Indo-Caribbean feminist thought, this collection connects to the
broader indentureship diaspora and what can be considered
post-indentureship feminist thought. Through examinations of
literature, activism, art, biography, scholarship and public
sphere practices, the collection highlights the complexity and
richness of Indo-Caribbean engagements with feminism and social
justice.
