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Mobilizing India : women, music, and migration between India and Trinidad / Tejaswini Niranjana.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Niranjana, Tejaswini, 1958-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women singers--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--Social conditions.
- Women singers.
- Gender identity--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Gender identity.
- East Indians--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--Ethnic identity.
- East Indians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities ""back home"" in India.
- Contents:
- 1 "The Indian in Me": Studying the Subaltern Diaspora
- 2 "Left to the Imagination": Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality
- 3 "Take a Little Chutney, Add a Touch of Kaiso": The Body in the Voice
- 4 Jumping out of Time: The Indian in Calypso
- 5 "Suku Suku What Shall I Do?": Hindi Cinema and the Politics of Music
- Afterword: A Semi-Lime.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references, ( p. [253]-265 ) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822388425
- 0822388421
- OCLC:
- 262328124
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