Elmina as Postcolonial Space

Kabir, Ananya Jahanara

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“…The coloniality of gender was, more than anyone type of gender inequality or gender difference, a colonially infused understanding of gender difference. To complicate the gendered dimension even further, Ananya Kabir (2020) discusses another dimension of what we could call the creolization of 1492 in the context of enslavement and colonization in Africa. A few years before 1492, nine Portuguese caravels arrived in Elmina, Ghana, a port on what is now called the Gold Coast.…”

Section: Inter-imperiality and Roma Enslavement As European Historymentioning

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“…Thus, local women were soon joined by the new generation of mixed-race women, born into so-called castle slavery (cf. Kabir 2020Kabir : 1004. They provided domestic and sexual work and reproduced the Gold Coast society by perpetuating what became an elite class among those enslaved at the castle -they were domestic slaves.…”

Section: Inter-imperiality and Roma Enslavement As European Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1 In 2018, Margareta Matache, one of the main proponents of a reconsideration of Roma enslavement as European history and as Romanian history, co-wrote an article with Cornel West, pointing to the fact that enslavements are entangled, that Roma and African Americans share a common struggle and that their enslavements, both of which went on for 500 years during almost the same period, merit more attention. Both the example of Roma women and the point Kabir (2020) made about local Ghanaian women crossing embodied borders, are indicative of the ongoing embodied struggles that women and feminized others are contending with today, which Julia Roth and I addressed in a chapter (Boatcă/Roth 2019) that explored why women and citizenship are counteracted and how gender and citizenship are the most important factors in global inequalities today. We came up with a term that very much echoes both Kabir's analysis and the Roma's protest against contestations: embodied social mobility.…”

Section: Shifting East Towards Inter-imperial Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creole Indias, Creolizing Pondicherry: Ari Gautier’sLe thinnaias the Archipelago of Fragments

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This essay argues for creolization as a salient theoretical and historical category for Indian cultural history that can offer an epistemic alternative to its land-centric bias. Through literary analysis of Franco-Tamil author Ari Gautier’s novel about Pondicherry, Le thinnai, it demonstrates how creolization theories need to be adjusted to capture and evaluate the cultural transformations which took place in enclaves such as Pondicherry, founded between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries on India’s coasts by a range of European powers. Equally, it deploys literary critical methods to illuminate how, and why, fiction such as Gautier’s reactivates memory of Creole Indias. This reading reveals his privileged trope of the “thinnai,” a veranda-like architectural element of Tamil homes, as working together with the embodied culture of Pondicherry’s “Bas Créole” community, to present the enclave as a contact zone for creolization of cultural materials that converge here through two, overlapping circularities: the transoceanic and the littoral. The specific epistemic structure generated through their intersections, that I call “the archipelago of fragments,” moves us away from the double bind of territoriality and caste-based preference for purity while opening Indian cultural history to the porosity of the coastline and the unpredictability of creolization as cultural process.

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Elmina as Postcolonial Space

Cited by 3 publications

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Global Contestations of Gender Rights

Global Contestations of Gender Rights

The Caribbean

Creole Indias, Creolizing Pondicherry: Ari Gautier’sLe thinnaias the Archipelago of Fragments

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