Abstract
Outar here explores early expressions of feminist thought on the part of both Indo-Caribbean women and men in the form of a mid-twentieth-century Indo-Trinidadian journal called the Spectator. She tracks what this example of Indian claiming of public sphere space suggests about understandings of the intersections of gender and diasporic Indian identity in the pre- and post-independence moments and theorizes a post-indentureship cosmopolitan feminism at work not only in the Caribbean but also in Mauritius and other spaces linked and shaped by intertwined histories of slavery and indentureship.
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Outar, L. (2016). Post-Indentureship Cosmopolitan Feminism: Indo-Caribbean and Indo-Mauritian Women’s Writing and the Public Sphere. In: Hosein, G.J., Outar, L. (eds) Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought. New Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55937-1_7
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