Women in the Indian Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in the Indian Diaspora write by Amba Pande. This book was released on 2017-12-05. Women in the Indian Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings into focus a range of emergent issues related to women in the Indian diaspora. The conditions propelling women’s migration and their experiences during the process of migration and settlement have always been different and very specific to them. Standing ‘in-between’ the two worlds of origin and adoption, women tend to experience dialectic tensions between freedom and subjugation, but they often use this space to assert independence, and to redefine their roles and perceptions of self. The central idea in this volume is to understand women’s agency in addressing and redressing the complex issues faced by them; in restructuring the cultural formats of patriarchy and gender relations; managing the emerging conflicts over what is to be transmitted to the following generations,; renegotiating their domestic roles and embracing new professional and educational successes; and adjusting to the institutional structures of the host state. The essays included in the volume discuss women in the Indian diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives involving social, economic, cultural, and political aspects. Such an effort privileges diasporic women’s experiences and perspectives in the academia and among policy makers.
Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora
Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora write by Amba Pande. This book was released on 2020-01-03. Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes the processes of migration and settlement of indentured Indian women and tries to map their struggles, challenges and agencies. It highlights the fact that even though indentured women faced various kinds of violence and abuse owing to the authoritarian and patriarchal setup of the plantations, over a period of time, they managed to turn the adverse circumstances to their advantage. They struggled to emerge as productive workforces and empowered themselves through acquiring education and skill, and negotiating new spaces and identities for themselves. At the same time, they also raised families in often inhospitable circumstances, passing on to their descendants, a strong foundation to build successful lives for themselves.The book discusses indentured women from a multidisciplinary perspective and adopts multiple methodologies, including primary and secondary sources, personal narrations, pictorial representations and theoretical discussions. It also provides an overview of the current discourses and the changing paradigms of the studies on Indian indentured women. Further, it presents a detailed, region-wise description of indentured women migrants. The regions covered in this book are Asia- Pacific (countries covered are Fiji, Burma and Nepal); Africa (countries covered are South Africa, Mauritius and Reunion Island); and the Caribbean (countries covered are Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago). In addition, one full section of the book is devoted to the theoretical frameworks that touch upon gender performativity, normative misogyny, Bahadur's Coolie Women, literary representations and resistance movements. It is intended for academics and researches in the field of diaspora/migration/transnational studies, history, sociology, literature, women/gender studies, as well as policymakers and general readers interested in the personal experiences of women and migrants.
Negotiating Identities
Negotiating Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating Identities write by Aparna Rayaprol. This book was released on 1997. Negotiating Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about how immigrant communities conceptualize, and indeed actualize, the process of reconstruction in a foreign land. Faced with a disjunctive crisis, a community can find in religion "a major symbolic resource" that helps to make such rebuilding possible. In this book, the community in question is South Indian, and the material representation of their coming together is the Sri Venkateswara temple in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The author examines the dynamics of gender roles within this specific occurrence of India-to-America immigration, emphasizing the ways in which both women and girls (by way of cultural and religious activities related to the temple) have created a niche for themselves with in the community.
The Subaltern Indian Woman
The Subaltern Indian Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Subaltern Indian Woman write by Prem Misir. This book was released on 2017-11-16. The Subaltern Indian Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women’s abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from India. This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured Indian women’s cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control impacted their social organization and its legacy. The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Indians from 1834 through 1917.
Exploring Gender in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Exploring Gender in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Gender in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora write by Sandhya Rao Mehta. This book was released on 2015-01-12. Exploring Gender in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reflecting the continuing interest in the diaspora and transnationalism, this collection of critical essays is located at the intersection of gender and diaspora studies, exploring the multiple ways in which the literature of the Indian diaspora negotiates, interprets and performs gender within established and emerging ethnic spaces. Based on current theories of diaspora, as well as feminist and queer studies, this collection focuses on close textual interpretation framed by cultural and literary theory. Targeted at both academic and general readers interested in gender and diaspora, as well as Indian literature, this collection is an eclectic selection of works by both established academics and emerging scholars from different parts of the world and with diverse backgrounds. It brings together multiple approaches to the predicament of belonging and the creation of identities, while showcasing the range and depth of the Indian diaspora and the diversity of its literary productions.
