Tejaswini Niranjana

Mobilizing India

Women, Music, and Migration Between India and Trinidad

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A South-South perspective on how the mobilization of citizens within Trinidad and India has affected female identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 159mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338284
• ISBN-10: 0822338289
• Artikelnr.: 21001980

Autorenporträt

Tejaswini Niranjana is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in Bangalore, India. She is the author of Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context and a coeditor of Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Note on Usage ix
Introduction 1
1. “The Indian in Me”: Studying the Subaltern Diaspora 17
2. “Left to the Imagination”: Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality 55
3. “Take a Little Chutney, Add a Touch of Kaiso”: The Body in the Voice 85
4. Jumping out of Time: The “Indian” in Calypso 125
5. “Suku Suku What Shall I Do?”: Hindi Cinema and the Politics of Music 169
Afterword: A Semi-Lime 191
Notes 223
Bibliography 253
Index 267