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The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations
March 26 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm EDT
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Free
Celebrate the publication of Aleah N. Ranjitsingh’s edited volume The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations. The volume expands notions of the Caribbean diaspora to account for the Asian as part of the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora.
Its interdisciplinary chapters center Caribbean people of Chinese, Indian, Japanese and Javanese descent in and outside of the Caribbean, reveal migration narratives, encounters on Caribbean plantations and in diasporic urban centers, notions of homeland and experiences of return, family histories, identity formation and subjectivity, the ways in which Caribbean people create and convey meaning about these histories, experiences and self, and the contributions of Caribbean people of Asian descent to the framing of the Caribbean and Asian diasporas.
Ranjitsingh (Brooklyn College) will be joined in conversation by volume contributors Nikoli Attai (Binghamton University), Sue Ann Barratt (University of the West Indies), Cristine Sabrina Khan (Stony Brook), Jillian Ollivierre (York University), and Tarika Sankar (Brown University).
