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Descendants Of Indentured Laborers Brought From India To The Caribbean Between 1845 And 1917 Comprise More Than Forty Percent Of Trinidad's Population Today. While Many Indo-trinidadians Identify Themselves As Indian, What Indian Signifies--about Nationalism, Gender, Culture, Caste, Race, And Religion--in The Caribbean Is Different From What It Means On The Subcontinent. Yet The Ways That Indianness Is Conceived Of And Performed In India And In Trinidad Have Historically Been, And Remain, Intimately Related. Offering An Innovative Analysis Of How Ideas Of Indian Identity Negotiated Within The Indian Diaspora In Trinidad Affect Cultural Identities Back Home, Tejaswini Niranjana Models A Necessary Project: Comparative Research Across The Global South, Scholarship That Decenters The First World West As The Referent Against Which Postcolonial Subjects Understand Themselves And Are Understood By Others.^ Niranjana Draws On Nineteenth-century Travel Narratives, Anthropological And Historical Studies Of Trinidad, Hindi Film Music, And The Lyrics, Performance, And Reception Of Chutney-soca And Calypso Songs To Argue That Perceptions Of Indian Female Sexuality In Trinidad Have Long Been Cen

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Author

Niranjana, Tejaswini , 1958-

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822388425

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Music