Introduction :  Queering indentureship

Wahab, Amar

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169/jofstudindentleg

Title: Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies

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[1] Anjali Arondekar. 2015. ‘In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Sexuality, Historiography, South Asia’, differences, 25(3): 98–122.

[2] Tara Atluri. 2009. ‘Putting the “Cool” in Coolie: Disidentification, Desire and Dissent in the Work of Filmmaker Michelle Mohabeer’, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 3: 1–25.

[3] Tara L. Atluri 2001. When the Closet Is a Region: Homophobia, Heterosexism and Nationalism in the Commonwealth Caribbean (Cave Hill: Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies).

[4] Gaiutra Bahadur. 2016. Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press).

[5] Marina CarterKhal Torabully. 2002. Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora (London: Anthem).

[6] Ronald CummingsNalini Mohabir. 2018. ‘“The Anger of Very, Very Restless Spirits”: Plantation Arrivals, Diasporic Departures and Other Queer Narratives of Caribbean Becoming – A Conversation with Faizal Deen’, Journal of West Indian Literature, 26(1): 10–24.

[7] Gitan Djeli. 2021. ‘Kreoling Sisters: (Un)intimate Relationships, Child Marriages and Women Spirits’, Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, 1(1): 114–124.

[8] Haseenah Ebrahim. 2021. ‘A Poetics of Sensuality: Xenophobia and Same-sex Intimacy in Cane/Cain’, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, 6(2): 141–158.

[9] Jordache Ellapen. 2018. ‘Queering the Archive: Brown Bodies in Ecstasy: Visual Assemblages, and the Pleasures of Transgressive Erotics’, S&F Online, (14.3). <https://sfonline.barnard.edu/feminist-and-queer-afro-asian-formations/queering-the-archive-brown-bodies-in-ecstasy-visual-assemblages-and-the-pleasures-of-transgressive-erotics/>, accessed April 22, 2022.

[10] Jordache A. Ellapen 2017. ‘When the Moon Waxes Red: Afro-Asian Feminist Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Indenture’, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 21(2): 94–111.

[11] Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan. 2016. ‘(Un) Settling the politics of identity and sexuality among Indo-Trinidadian same-sex loving women’, in Gabrielle Jamela HoseinLisa Outar (eds), Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 153–170.

[12] Krystal GhisyawanPreity Kumar. 2020. ‘Queer Tactility: Same-sex Intimacies between Women in Chutney and Soca Music’, Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 4(2): 87–105.

[13] Tao Leigh Goffe. 2014. ‘Intimate Occupations: The Afterlife of the “Coolie”’, Transforming Anthropology, 22(1): 53–61.

[14] Andil Gosine. 2021. Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press).

[15] Andil Gosine. 2017. ‘After indenture’, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 21(2): 63–67.

[16] Andil Gosine. 2016. ‘My mother’s baby: Wrecking work after indentureship’, in Gabrielle Jamela HoseinLisa Outar (eds), Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 49–60.

[17] Andil GosineMohabir Nalini. 2022. ‘Afterlives of Indenture’, Wasafiri, 37(2).

[18] Saidiya Hartman. 2008a. Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route (New York: Macmillan).

[19] Saidiya Hartman. 2008. ‘Venus in Two Acts’, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 12(2): 1–14.

[20] Rosanne Kanhai, ed. 1999. Matikor: The Politics of Identity for Indo-Caribbean Women (St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago: University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Studies).

[21] Kamala Kempadoo. 2009. ‘Caribbean Sexuality: Mapping the Field’, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 3, 1–24.

[22] Roshini KempadooSharlene KhanWendy Nanan. 2017. ‘After Indenture: Three Photo Stories’, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 21(2): 135–150.

[23] Aliyah Khan. 2016. ‘Voyages across Indenture: From Ship Sister to Mannish Woman’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 22(2): 249–280.

[24] Sean Lokaisingh-Meighoo. 2000. ‘Jahaji Bhai: Notes on the Masculine Subject and Homoerotic Subtext of Indo-Caribbean Identity’, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 7, 77–92.

[25] Renluka Maharaj, n.d. <https://www.renluka.com/copy-of-finding-my-place-1>, accessed April 26, 2022.

[26] Michelle Mohabeer, dir. 2019. Queer Coolie-tudes [film].

[27] Michelle Mohabeer, dir. 1994. Coconut/Cane & Cutlass [film].

[28] Nalini Mohabir. 2019. ‘Kala Pani: Aesthetic Deathscapes and the Flow of Water after Indenture’, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 5(3), 293–314.

[29] Nalini Mohabir. 2017. ‘Picturing an Afterlife of Indenture’, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 21(2): 81–93.

[30] Shani Mootoo. 1998. Cereus Blooms at Night (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc.).

[31] Tejaswini Niranjana. 1999. ‘“Left to the imagination”: Indian nationalisms and female sexuality in Trinidad’, Public Culture, 11(1): 223–243.

[32] Angelique V. Nixon 2016. ‘Seeing difference: Visual feminist praxis, identity, and desire in Indo-Caribbean women’s art and knowledge’, in Gabrielle Jamela HoseinLisa Outar (eds), Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 171–191.

[33] Ryan Persadie. 2020. ‘“Meh Just Realize I’s Ah Coolie Bai”: Indo-Caribbean Masculinities, Chutney Genealogies, and Qoolie Subjectivities’, Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 4(2): 56–86.

[34] Suzanne Persard. 2020. ‘Coconut/Cane & Cutlass: Queer visuality in the Indo-Caribbean Lesbian Archive’, Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 4(2): 40–55.

[35] Lauren Pragg. 2012. ‘The Queer Potential: (Indo-)Caribbean Feminisms and Heteronormativity’, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 6: 1–14.

[36] Shivanee Ramlochan. 2017. Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press).

[37] Shalini Seereeram. n.d. <https://www.instagram.com/shalini.seereeram/?hl=en>, accessed May 4, 2022.

[38] Kelly Sinnapah Mary. n.d. <https://kellysinnapahmary.wixsite.com/kelly-sinnapah-mary>, accessed April 22, 2022.

[39] Amar Wahab. 2019. ‘(Re) Tracing Queerness: Archiving Indentureship’s “Coolie Homo/erotic”’, Visual Studies, 34(4): 388–394.