Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora : Indian Perspectives (Paperback)

Introduction: Texts and Contexts: Rethinking Gender in Kala Pani Narratives?PART I: Rethinking the Kala pani: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches?1.?Revisiting Literary Studies of the Indian Diaspora: Possible Strategies for a Comparatist Approach?2.?‘The Sea is History’: The Concept of Space in Women’s?Kala Pani?Crossings?3.?Women and Indenture: Revisiting Indian Discourses?PART II: Past and Present: Revisiting the ‘Sexual Contract’?4.?‘Intimate Violence’ and the ‘Sexual Contract’: Female Convicts and Marriage ‘System’ in Andamans, c. 1860-c.1920?5.?Marriage and Man-Woman Relationship in Coolie Diaspora?6.?Queer Diaspora and Hindu Rituals: Shani Mootoo’s?Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab?PART III: Voice and Vision Redeemed?7.?Constructing Narratives on both sides of the Kala Pani: The Gendered Departee and Returnee in Firmin Lacpatia’s?Boadour ? du Gange … a la Riviere des Roches?and K. Madavane’s?Rue des Tisserands, Pondichery?8.?The Traces of the Silenced: Indian Indentured Women Labourers in Colonial Literature of the Reunion?9.?Between Homes and Shores:?Reimagining Her 'Silences' from Kalapani Crossings in Indo-Caribbean Poetry?10.?Visions, Trances, and other Abnormalities of Indenture in?Jahajin,?The Swinging Bridge?and?Sea of Poppies?PART IV: In Conversation with India: Memorial Narratives Inside Out?11.?Popular Resolution of the Bhojpuri Women’s Question: Examining the Socio-Cultural Legacy of the?Bidesiya?in Select Bhojpuri Films?12.?Remembering Mariamman?PART V: In the Writers’ Own Voices?Interviews with Brij V. Lal, Ananda Devi, Shani Mootoo, Peggy Mohan, Cyril Dabydeen, Davina Ittoo, Ramabai Espinet, Khal Torabully