Contradictory Indianness: Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary

by Atreyee Phukan

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)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978829116
• ISBN13: 9781978829114
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher