Mariam Pirbhai
Biographic Data
| ID | 352548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariam Pirbhai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariam |
| FAMILY NAME | Pirbhai |
| SIGNATURE | PIRBHAI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
South Asian Canadian “Geographies of Voice”
Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing
Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing , edited by Varun Gulati and Mythili Anoop, examines some of India’s canonical figures, including Ismat Chughtai, Anita Desai, Narmita Ghokale, Manju Kapur, Manjula Padmanabhan and Nayantra Sahgal, as well as diasporic writers Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri and Shani Mooto. The collection is organized in three sections: Section I, “Dwelling in the Archive: Historical Representations,” includes five c…
Pathologies of paradise
Supriya Nair’s new book ends by gesturing towards a future that, while uncertain, promises ‘a new script’ with a ‘fresh cast of actors, heroes, and villains’, but that is also certain to be guided
Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature
Introduction: Tracing an Emerging Tradtition Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai I. Indo-Caribbean Localities, Feminist Poetics 1. Re-Casting Jahaji-Bhain: Plantation History and the Indo-Caribbean Women's Novel in Trinidad, Guyana and Martinique Mariam Pirbhai 2. Domestic Altars, Female Avatars: Hindu Wives and Widows in Lakshmi Persaud's Raise the Lanterns High Supriya Nair 3. Music and a Story: Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge…
Sunshine Guarantee
The Jahaji-Bhain Principle
This paper provides the first critical survey of the Indo-Caribbean women’s novel, a distinct sub-genre which now spans approximately two decades. The survey examines the way these novels critically map the trajectory of Indo-Caribbean women’s lives from the moment of colonial servitude to the post-colonial present, through highly individuated expressions of Indian female subjectivity, in a context where sexual and racial politics have so often o…
Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture
Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji
The Jahaji-Bhain Principle
This paper provides the first critical survey of the Indo-Caribbean women’s novel, a distinct sub-genre which now spans approximately two decades. The survey examines the way these novels critically map the trajectory of Indo-Caribbean women’s lives from the moment of colonial servitude to the post-colonial present, through highly individuated expressions of Indian female subjectivity, in a context where sexual and racial politics have so often o…
Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture
Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji
Sunshine Guarantee
The Jahaji-Bhain Principle
This paper provides the first critical survey of the Indo-Caribbean women’s novel, a distinct sub-genre which now spans approximately two decades. The survey examines the way these novels critically map the trajectory of Indo-Caribbean women’s lives from the moment of colonial servitude to the post-colonial present, through highly individuated expressions of Indian female subjectivity, in a context where sexual and racial politics have so often o…
Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature
Introduction: Tracing an Emerging Tradtition Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai I. Indo-Caribbean Localities, Feminist Poetics 1. Re-Casting Jahaji-Bhain: Plantation History and the Indo-Caribbean Women's Novel in Trinidad, Guyana and Martinique Mariam Pirbhai 2. Domestic Altars, Female Avatars: Hindu Wives and Widows in Lakshmi Persaud's Raise the Lanterns High Supriya Nair 3. Music and a Story: Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge…
South Asian Canadian “Geographies of Voice”
Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing
Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing , edited by Varun Gulati and Mythili Anoop, examines some of India’s canonical figures, including Ismat Chughtai, Anita Desai, Narmita Ghokale, Manju Kapur, Manjula Padmanabhan and Nayantra Sahgal, as well as diasporic writers Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri and Shani Mooto. The collection is organized in three sections: Section I, “Dwelling in the Archive: Historical Representations,” includes five c…
Pathologies of paradise
Supriya Nair’s new book ends by gesturing towards a future that, while uncertain, promises ‘a new script’ with a ‘fresh cast of actors, heroes, and villains’, but that is also certain to be guided
Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Diaspora (2 works)