Watery Archives

Transoceanic Narratives in Andil Gosine's Our Holy Waters, and Mine

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3947202
AutoresSubhalakshmi Gooptu (autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen130
Número1
Páginas44-60
Fecha de publicación2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01417789211073294
OpenAlexW4226207077
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas57

In this article, I describe Andil Gosine's artistic archives as 'watery' to chart a feminist genealogy of archival practice. I argue that routing interdisciplinary studies of Atlantic and Indian Oceans through the Caribbean provides a transoceanic method to analyse race and sexuality within Indo-Caribbean connections. To that end, I examine the representation of water and waterways in Gosine's Our Holy Waters, and Mine (2014) to illustrate how relations with water provides a heuristic and representative practice for critiquing afterlives of colonialism and indentureship. I bring together Indo-Caribbean feminist epistemology, scholarship on feminist and queer archival practices and ocean studies to read Gosine's experimental artistic practice as offering ways to rethink oceanic materiality in the context of historical and archival knowledge production

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Feminism · Human sexuality · Knowledge production · Literature · Materiality (auditing) · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Representation (politics) · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies