Lisa Outar
Biographic Data
| ID | 643884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Outar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Outar |
| SIGNATURE | OUTAR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Scholar, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Creolized Sexualities
Touching the shores of home
This essay considers my personal negotiations of concepts of home in the context of my immigrant Guyanese status, my Indo-Caribbeanness, my feminism, and my scholarship. Reflecting upon a moment of return to Guyana to discuss my academic work, I explore how one constructs shifting and complex ideas of home in the diaspora. Pointing out the fraught space that Indo-Caribbean identity holds in most people's understanding of indigeneity, the essay tr…
Indigenous Sexualities
This essay offers a critical engagement with Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014), arguing that King enacts a ground-shifting interdisciplinary and translinguistic approach to the study of Caribbean sexualities and gender explorations. King's work is notable for its bridging of the divide between scholarship, literature, and activism, producing new understandings of transgression and agen…
Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought
Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist
L'Inde Perdue, L'Inde Retrouvée (India lost, India found)
In this essay, the study of Indo-Caribbean writing is expanded beyond its customary focus on the Anglophone region to explore representations of Caribbean Indianness in the literary works of two Francophone Guadeloupean writers, Maryse Condé and Ernest Moutoussamy. The essay examines the ways in which each author points up the shortcomings of creolization discourse when it comes to accounting for the experiences of Indo-Caribbean subjects. Also a…
Tropical longing
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean and their descendants were viewed by the British and by those within the subcontinent in often contradictory ways – both as docile, more culturally respected alternatives to black workers and as examples of brokenness and degradation from a subcontinental norm. I examine here various Indian and non-Indian views about the status of Caribbean Indianne…
Frustrated Homelands
Indigenous Sexualities
This essay offers a critical engagement with Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014), arguing that King enacts a ground-shifting interdisciplinary and translinguistic approach to the study of Caribbean sexualities and gender explorations. King's work is notable for its bridging of the divide between scholarship, literature, and activism, producing new understandings of transgression and agen…
Tropical longing
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean and their descendants were viewed by the British and by those within the subcontinent in often contradictory ways – both as docile, more culturally respected alternatives to black workers and as examples of brokenness and degradation from a subcontinental norm. I examine here various Indian and non-Indian views about the status of Caribbean Indianne…
Frustrated Homelands
Tropical longing
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indian indentured labourers in the Caribbean and their descendants were viewed by the British and by those within the subcontinent in often contradictory ways – both as docile, more culturally respected alternatives to black workers and as examples of brokenness and degradation from a subcontinental norm. I examine here various Indian and non-Indian views about the status of Caribbean Indianne…
L'Inde Perdue, L'Inde Retrouvée (India lost, India found)
In this essay, the study of Indo-Caribbean writing is expanded beyond its customary focus on the Anglophone region to explore representations of Caribbean Indianness in the literary works of two Francophone Guadeloupean writers, Maryse Condé and Ernest Moutoussamy. The essay examines the ways in which each author points up the shortcomings of creolization discourse when it comes to accounting for the experiences of Indo-Caribbean subjects. Also a…
Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought
Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist
Indigenous Sexualities
This essay offers a critical engagement with Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014), arguing that King enacts a ground-shifting interdisciplinary and translinguistic approach to the study of Caribbean sexualities and gender explorations. King's work is notable for its bridging of the divide between scholarship, literature, and activism, producing new understandings of transgression and agen…
Touching the shores of home
This essay considers my personal negotiations of concepts of home in the context of my immigrant Guyanese status, my Indo-Caribbeanness, my feminism, and my scholarship. Reflecting upon a moment of return to Guyana to discuss my academic work, I explore how one constructs shifting and complex ideas of home in the diaspora. Pointing out the fraught space that Indo-Caribbean identity holds in most people's understanding of indigeneity, the essay tr…
Creolized Sexualities
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)