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Literature and Humanities

Benjamin, Joel, et al., eds. They Came in Ships: an Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Prose and Poetry. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 1998.

Birbalsingh, Frank. Neil Bissoondath: Indo-Caribbean-Canadian Diaspora. New Delhi: Rawat, 2005.

Birbalsingh, Frank, ed. Jahaji: an Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction. Toronto: TSAR, 2000.

Birbalsingh, Frank, ed. Jahaji bhai: an Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Literature. Toronto: TSAR, 1988.

Birbalsingh, Frank. Passion and Exile: Essays in Caribbean Literature. London: Hansib, 1988.

Bragard, Véronique. Transoceanic Dialogues: Coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Literatures. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008.

Bragard, Véronique. The Flute of Voicelessness and New Birth: Mahadai Das and Ramabai Espinet's Indo-Caribbean Creative Memory. Diss. U of Warwick, 1997.

Carter, Marina and Khal Torabully. Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indian Labor Diaspora. London: Anthem Press, 2002.

Cudjoe, Selwyn R., ed. Caribbean Women Writers. Essays from the First International Conference. Wellesley, Mass.: Calaloux, 1990.

Dawes, Kwame, ed. Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2001.

de Caires Narain, Denise. Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry: Making Style. London: Routledge, 2002.

Espinet, Ramabai, ed. Creation Fire. A CAFRA Anthology of Caribbean Women’s Poetry. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1990.

Espinet, Ramabai. “The Invisible Woman in West Indian Fiction.” World Literature Written in English 29.2 (1989): 116-126.

Gafoor, Ameena. “The depiction of Indian female experience in the contemporary novel of the Anglophone Caribbean.” Guyana Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2003.

Gorra, Michael. After Empire. Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.

Gramaglia, Letizia and Erin Somerville. “Eco, Feminism: Indo-Caribbean Women and Nature.” ‘What is the Earthly Paradise?’: Ecocritical Responses to the Caribbean. Eds. Chris Campbell and Erin Somerville. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 149-166.

Grant, Kevin, ed. The Art of David Dabydeen. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 1997.

Iyer, Nalini and Bonnie Zare, eds. Other Tongues. Rethinking the Language Debates in India. Rodopi, 2009.

Hayward, Helen. The Enigma of V. S. Naipaul: Sources and Contexts. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.

Mair, Lucille Mathurin. A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica: 1655-1844. Kingston, Jamaica: U of the West Indies P, 2006.

Manuel, Peter. “Transnational Chowtal: Bhojpuri Folksong from North India to the Caribbean, Fiji, and Beyond.” Asian Music 40/2, 2009: 1-32.

Manuel, Peter. "The Harmonium in Indian and Indo-Caribbean Music: From Colonial Tool to Nationalist Icon," The Free-Reed Journal 1, 1999, pp. 48-59.

Manuel, Peter. "The construction of a diasporic tradition: Indo-Caribbean 'local classical music,'" in Ethnomusicology 44/1, 2000, pp. 97-119.

Manuel, Peter. East Indian Music in the West Indies: Tan-Singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.

Manuel, Peter. Tan-Singing of Trinidad and Guyana: Indo-Caribbean "Local-Classical Music" (50' ethnographic documentary) 2/2000.

Manuel, Peter. "Chutney and Indo-Trinidadian Cultural Identity," in Popular Music 17(1), 1998, pp. 21-42.

Manuel, Peter. "Music, Identity, and Images of India in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora," in Asian Music 29/1, 1997/1998, pp. 17-36.

Manuel, Peter. "Ethnic Identity, National Identity, and Music in Indo-Caribbean Culture", in Music and the Racial Imagination, ed. Philip Bohlman and Ronald Radano (University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 318-45.

Manuel, Peter, editor, with Rudy Sasenarine, compiler. Chowtal Rang Bahar: A Treasury of Chowtal Songs from India and the Caribbean. Queens, NY: The Rajkumari Centre, 2009.

Mehta, Brinda. Diasporic (Dis)locations. Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani. Jamaica: U of the West Indies P, 2004.

Myers, Helen. Music of Hindu Trinidad. Songs from the Indian Diaspora. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.

Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Reworlding: the Literature of the Indian Diaspora. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. London: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Parrenas, Rhacel S. and Lok C.D. Siu, eds. Asian diasporas; new formations, new conceptions. Stanford University Press, 2007.

Pirbhai, Mariam. "An 'Ethnos' of Difference, a Praxis of Inclusion: The Ethics of Global Citizenship in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night." Beyond Asian-American Auto-Ethnography. Eds. Eleanor Ty and Christyl Verdun. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, (2008): 247-66.

Pirbhai, Mariam. "The Question of Cultural Conviction for ‘This time generation’: The Indo-Guyanese Response to Contemporary Caribbean Experience in Rooplall Monar’s Janjhat and Narmala Shewcharan’s Tomorrow is Another Day." World Literature Written in English 39.1 (2001 Special Issue on Caribbean Literature): 37-53.

Poynting, Jeremy. From the Sugar Estate to the Suburbs: Images of Diversity and Change in Indo-Caribbean Fiction. Coventry: Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, 1984.

Raghuram, Parvati, et al., eds. Tracing an Indian Diaspora: Contexts, Memories, Representations. London: SAGE, 2008.

Sarbadhikary, Krishna. Surviving the Fracture: Writers of the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2007.

Shepherd, Verene. I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Postcolonial Jamaica. Ian Randle Publishers, 2007.

Vatuk, Ved Prakash. “Protest Songs of East Indians in British Guiana.” The Journal of American Folklore, 77 (1964): 220-235.

Wilson-Tagoe, Nana. Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West Indian Literature. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.

Wong, Mital P. and Zia Hasan. The Fictions of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean since 1950. A Critical Study of English Language Works. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2004.