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In this introduction, the editors lay out the terrain for a systematic examination of an Indo-Caribbean feminist intellectual tradition, its discursive practices, and its relationship to Caribbean feminist theory and activism as well as to Caribbean scholarship and society. We specifically highlight Indo-Caribbean feminist thought as traced through antecedents to scholarship, in a range of writings and forms of public engagement, including in art and literature, as well as in the emergence of later scholarly conceptual contributions, debates, and critiques. The introduction offers two overall conceptual contributions to the field of Indo-Caribbean feminist thought—the concept of feminist navigations, and that of post-indentureship feminisms.
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Hosein, G.J., Outar, L. (2016). Introduction: Interrogating an Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology. 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_1
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