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Mobilizing India – Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

Autor Tejaswini Niranjana
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2006
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822338420
ISBN-10: 0822338424
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 46 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Recenzii

“Tejaswini Niranjana listens to the tones and echoes of Indianness in the Caribbean and elaborates a South-South genealogy that obligates us to reconceive the cultural geography of modernity. From the ‘moral status of the coolie woman’ in British colonialist and Indian nationalist discourses to the figure of the ‘Indian woman’ in Afro-Trinidadian calypso, Hindi cinema musics, and female chutney-soca performances, she pronounces the gendered rhythms of popular music as subaltern cultural politics.”—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics“Tejaswini Niranjana’s fine achievement in Mobilizing India is to have given shape to a compelling way of rethinking the conceptual agenda for the comparative study of the Third World.”—David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

Notă biografică

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."

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"Tejaswini Niranjana's fine achievement in "Mobilizing India" is to have given shape to a compelling way of rethinking the conceptual agenda for the comparative study of the Third World."--David Scott, author of "Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment"

Cuprins

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

Descriere

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