Dougla poetics : orientations of Indianness and mixedness in Trinidad

• Main Author: Kay, Kavyta (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
• Series: Critical mixed race studies
• Subjects: Sociology.; Social Science > Emigration & Immigration.; Migration, immigration and emigration.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781800434349
• DOI: 10.1108/9781800434325
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 pages).

The category of the Dougla, that is the mixed Indian/Black body located in Trinidad, exists at a crossroads between multiculturalist discourses and essentialist ideas of Indian and African identities. Racialisation is often erased under the deployment of hybridity, creolisation and the 'callalo...