Full Description
This book expands notions of the Caribbean diaspora, which is often cast in very specific ways, so as to account for the Asian as part of the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora. It seeks to be descriptive, while also countering a limited discourse on the Caribbean diaspora.
The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora is grounded in the very histories and legacies of indentureship, contract labor, later migrations to the region, and encounter. The Asian presence has long been felt in the greater Caribbean - the result of colonial powers which necessitated labor on Caribbean plantations against the backdrop of empire and burgeoning capitalist structures; and later migrations as free migrants compelled by emigration schemes and economic opportunity. This work is descriptive, while also countering a limited discourse on the Caribbean diaspora. Its collection of interdisciplinary chapters which center the Chinese, Indian, Japanese and Javanese in and outside of the Caribbean, reveal migration narratives, encounters on Caribbean plantations and in diasporic urban centers, notions of homeland and experiences of return, family histories, identity formation and subjectivity, the ways in which Caribbean people create and convey meaning about these histories, experiences and self, and the contributions of Caribbean people of Asian descent to the framing of the Caribbean and Asian diasporas.
Contents
Introduction: The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora
Aleah N. Ranjitsingh
Chapter 1. Memory Archives of a Not-So-Distant Past - Cufun Landolio Attai 1917 - 1985
Nikoli Attai
Chapter 2. Japanese Brazilian Ethnic Return Migration to Japan and the Reconfiguration of National Identities and Homeland Affiliations
Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
Chapter 3. The Heterochronicity and Transnational Locality of Indo-Caribbean Gendered Modernities within Diasporic "Returns"
Jean Lee
Chapter 4. Chinese Caribbean Narratives: Migration, Identity and Belonging at Home and Diaspora
Aleah N. Ranjitsingh
Chapter 5. The Failure of Japanese Emigration to the Dominican Republic
Greg Robinson
Chapter 6. Unpacking 'Indo-Caribbean' Through Intersectional Feminism in New York City
Cristine Khan
Chapter 7. Dougla Maneuverings: Mixedness and Complex Embodiments in the Caribbean Diaspora
Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh
Chapter 8. Echoes Across Oceans: Transdiasporic Indo-Caribbean Anthologies and Post-Amnesia Jahaji Bhai(n)
Sandrine Soukaï
Chapter 9. "Where did history go, I asked myself, if it could not be retold?": Trauma and the Chinese Cuban Transnational History in Cristina García's Novel Monkey Hunting (2003)
Soultana (Tania) Diamanti
Chapter 10. Finding Home in the Diaspora: Roots, Reconnection and Renewal in Joy Mahabir's Jouvert
Victoria Chang
Chapter 11. Homosexuality, Societal Expectations and the Claims of Family: Queering Geographies of Domesticity and Belonging in Shani Mootoo's Valmiki's Daughter
Evripidis Karavasilis
Chapter 12. "After "Indo-Caribbean": Interrogating Interstitial Identities and Diasporic Solidarities in Conversation with Andil Gosine
Jillian Ollivierre
Chapter 13. Creating Space: Migrations, Nationalism, Unity, and Cultural Diversity among the Javanese-Surinamese in Suriname and the Netherlands
Rosemarijn Hoefte and Hariëtte Mingoen
Chapter 14. Chutney Songs, Indian Beats, and Black Music: Digital Diasporic Consciousness on
Indo-Caribbean Social Media
Tarika Sankar
Chapter 15. "Leave the Door Open:" Sounding Afro-Asian & Caribbean Cultural Production
A. Joseph Dial and Melvin Earl Villaver, Jr.
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