text New York Routledge 2013 monographic xi, 274 p. ; 24 cm. Indo-Caribbean Localities, Feminist Poetics Recastingjahaji-Bhain: Plantation History and the Indo- Caribbean Women's Novel in Trinidad, Guyana and Martinique MARIAM PIRBHAI Domestic Altars, Female Avatars: Hindu Wives and Widows in Laksbmi Persaud's Raise the Lanterns High SUPRIYA M. NAIR "Music and a Story": Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge NJELLE HAMILTON Carnival Poetics and Politics: Laksbmi Persaud's For the Love of My Name and Niala Mabaraj's Like Heaven J. VIJAY MAHARAJ The Broad Breast of the Land: Indo-Caribbean Ecofeminism and Mabadai Das LETIZIA GRAMAGLIA ANDJOSEPHJACKSON Transnational Realities, Diasporic Subjectivities The Kala Pani Imaginary: A Survey of Indo-Caribbean Women's Poetry JOY MAHABIR Interrogating the Presence of the Double Diaspora in Asian- and Indo-Caribbean Women Writers for Children KAREN SANDS-O'CONNOR Indo-Trinidadian Identities and Sexuality: A Survey of Shani Mootoo's Fiction FRANK BIRBALSINGH Illicit Intimacies, the Ramayana and Synaesthetic Remembering in Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's Daughter DONNA MCCORMACK Revising Female Indian Memory: Ramabai Espinet's Reconstruction of an Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in The Swinging Bridge RODOLPHE SOLBIAC edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai Caribbean literature Women authors History and criticism Women and literature Caribbean Area Women in literature Postcolonialism in literature LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General LITERARY CRITICISM / General 809.8928709729 MAH/C 9780415509671 (hardback) 041550967X (hardback)