Putting the 'Cool' in Coolie: dissident Sexuality, Indo-Caribbean identity and the oppositonal aesthetics of Michelle Mohabeer's Film

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dc.contributor.author Atluri, Tara
dc.date.accessioned 2013-07-08T18:04:27Z
dc.date.available 2013-07-08T18:04:27Z
dc.date.issued 2013-07-08
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2139/15939
dc.description.abstract “It’s referencing back all of those Indian women that have come worked on the plantations and in the cane fields. It’s empowering them to a degree and yet the dance is South Asian...it evokes Bengali folk dance. It has an Indianness coded in it....And on the side of that shot is the Guyana flag which I’ve inverted as well which is a big thing because in not showing the flag as is, I’m gesturing to the questionof sexuality. So there are many layers there...” (Mohabeer 2008) en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Issue 3;
dc.subject Indo-Caribbean women en_US
dc.subject sexuality en_US
dc.title Putting the 'Cool' in Coolie: dissident Sexuality, Indo-Caribbean identity and the oppositonal aesthetics of Michelle Mohabeer's Film en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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