Touching the shores of home
Guyana, Indo-Caribbeanness, feminism, and return
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3877709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Outar (Independent Scholar, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 52-58 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0921374017751772 |
| OpenAlex | W2790685042 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
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 traces what constitutes belonging and transnational citizenship for me-as an immigrant woman, as a member of the indentureship diaspora, as a feminist, and as a scholar working in tandem with those in the Caribbean and elsewhere-and in my work. I here highlight the cross-racial, cross-class, transoceanic solidarities that shape my praxis
Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Diaspora · Feminism · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |