Descrição:

“Organizado em torno do paradigma do cruzamento – histórico, geográfico, sexual, corpóreo e identitário – este estudo oferece diálogos transoceânicos, transregionais e trans-regionais perspicazes entre as literaturas do Caribe e do Oceano Índico”

ÍNDICE:

Preface 11

Introduction 11

Chapter 1 Kala Pani Voices 21

Chapter 2 Plurigeneses: Coolitude and Marine Chronotopes 53

Chapter 3 Transgenerational and Geographical Passages:the Ambivalence of (Un)belonging 93

Chapter 4 Coolie Women’s Transgressive Crossings 129

Chapter 5 Walking Roots: Reading Labor, Vegetal, and Massala Metaphors of Identity 167

Chapter 6 Defying National Obstacles: Poetics of Rapprochement in Guyana and Mauritius 197

Conclusion

Coolitude or the Crossing of Imaginaries 247

Bibliography 253