From indenture to double diaspora: Music, film, and visual art of the indian caribbean

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This dossier seeks to make the Indian Caribbean more visible and more pertinent to critical debates within Caribbean discourses. Few studies have undertaken serious analyses of Indian Caribbean creative expression, and most ignore the newness and complex fusions that characterize music, dance, and visual cultures in the postindenture diaspora. We endeavor to nuance conversations around marginalized Caribbean cultural production and multilocal identity, understanding the arts as useful historical archives. An overview of Indian indentureship precedes the presentation of the articles, which provide deep analyses that critically address these issues: How Indian identity is expressed and debated in performative and artistic practices, including LGBTQ challenges to categories of race and gender; what comparative analyses reveal about continuity, change, and exchange across the Indian Caribbean diaspora; how racial and cultural alterities are resolved within an African creole and/or multicultural framework; and how orientations to India, citizenship, and transnational belonging are expressed and processed.

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Ballengee, C. L., & Gerohn Baksh, D. (2020). From indenture to double diaspora: Music, film, and visual art of the indian caribbean. Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 4(2), 2–9. https://doi.org/10.23870/marlas.345

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