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03672aam a2200481 i 4500 001 F6E6E28A3D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230818010103 008 211202s2022 nju b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021045681 020 $a 1978829116 020 $a 9781978829114 020 $a 1978829108 020 $a 9781978829107 035 $a (OCoLC)1268983483 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d WLU $d YDX $d DLC $d XII $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a cc----- 050 00 $a PR9205.4 $b .P48 2022 082 00 $a 813/.54098914110729 $2 23/eng/20220307 100 1 $a Phukan, Atreyee, $e author. 245 10 $a Contradictory Indianness : $b indenture, creolization, and literary imaginary / $c Atreyee Phukan. 264 1 $a New Brunswick : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a vii, 231 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Critical Caribbean studies 520 $a "As Contradictory Indianness shows, a postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics that has from its inception privileged inclusivity, interraciality, and resistance against Old World colonial orders requires taking into account Indo-Caribbean writers and their reimagining of Indianness in the region. Whereas, for instance, forms of Indo-Caribbean cultural expression in music, cuisine, or religion are more readily accepted as creolizing (thus, Caribbeanizing) processes, an Indo-Caribbean literary imaginary has rarely been studied as such. Discussing the work of Ismith Khan, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Totaram Sanadhya, LalBihari Sharma, and Shani Mootoo, Contradictory Indianness maintains that the writers' engagement with the regional and transnational poetics of the Caribbean underscores symbolic bridges between cultural worlds conventionally set apart--the Africanized and Indianized--and distinguishes between cultural worlds assumed to be the same--indenture and South Asian Indianness. This book privileges Indo-Caribbean fiction as a creolizing literary imaginary to broaden its study beyond a narrow canon that has, inadvertently or not, enabled monolithic and unidimensional perceptions of Indian cultural identity and evolution in the Caribbean, and continued to impose a fragmentary and disconnected study of (post)indenture aesthetics within indenture's own transnational cartography"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Indenture, creolization, and literary imaginary -- Indenture Passage and poetics in Totaram Sanadhya and LalBihari Sharma -- Repatriation and the "Indian problem" in Ismith Khan's The Jumbie bird (1960) -- The trope of the ricefield in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No pain like this body (1972) -- (En)Gendering indenture in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night (1992). 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Caribbean fiction (English) $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Caribbean fiction (English) $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a East Indian diaspora in literature. 650 0 $a East Indians in literature. 650 7 $a Caribbean fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00847461 650 7 $a East Indian diaspora in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01201800 650 7 $a East Indians in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901085 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Critical Caribbean studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020324.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F6E6E28A3D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search