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- Title
Mujer indocaribeña y performatividad en el período de servidumbre (1834-1917): un estudio introductorio.
- Authors
Herrero-Martín, Rosana
- Abstract
The present paper aims to explore different aspects of the intersection gender-performance during the Indentureship period in the West-Indies (1834-1917) on account of a few representative examples of Indo-Caribbean traditional performativity in Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname –the Caribbean countries with the largest contingent of Indo-Caribbean indented communities. Attention will be preliminarily paid to the socio-economic realities of Indo-Caribbean women, in rural and urban contexts, as well as to the definitions of decent/ infamous femininity prevailing within the iconography at the time. Following from here, we will proceed to explore the ways in which indentured Indo-Caribbean women have counteracted and challenged such a Manichean approach to their gender identity through performance, by analysing the persistence of certain private performative and ritual manifestations of uninhibited female expression.
- Subjects
INDENTURED servants in literature; GENDER identity in literature; WOMEN household employees; FEMININITY in literature; WOMEN foreign workers; HISTORY of the West Indies; CARIBBEAN Area in literature
- Publication
Cuadernos de Literatura, 2011, Vol 15, Issue 30, p364
- ISSN
0122-8102
- Publication type
Article