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Mobilizing India

Women, Music, and Migration Between India and Trinidad

Autor: Tejaswini Niranjana

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Editura: Duke University Press

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Descendants of indentured labourers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 compri...

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Autor

Tejaswini Niranjana

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2006

Pagini

288

EAN

9780822338284

ISBN

0822338289

Enbook ID

04938405

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

567

Dimensiuni

159 x 242 x 24

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Descendants of indentured labourers 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 which decentres 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 central to the formation and disruption of dominant narratives of nationhood, modernity, and normative sexuality in India. She illuminates debates in India about "the woman question" as they played out in the early-twentieth-century campaign against indentured servitude in the tropics. In so doing, she reveals India's disavowal of the indentured woman - seen to be rendered morally depraved by her forced labour in Trinidad - as central to its own anti-colonial struggle. Turning to the present, Niranjana looks to Trinidad's most dynamic site of cultural negotiation: popular music. She describes how contested ideas of Indian femininity are staged by contemporary Trinidadian musicians - male and female, of both Indian and African descent - in genres ranging from new hybrids like chutney-soca to the older but still vibrant music of Afro-Caribbean calypso.

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