Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora: Indian Perspectives

This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination.

Judith Misrahi-Barak is Professor in Postcolonial Studies in the English Department, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France. She is a member of the research center EMMA and is General Editor of the series PoCoPages (Pulm, Montpellier). Her areas of specialisation and publication are Anglophone Caribbean, Indo- and Sino-Caribbean literatures, diaspora and migrant writing, as well as Dalit literatures. Her recent monograph in French is entitled Entre Atlantique et océan Indien: les voix de la Caraïbe anglophones (Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2021).

Ritu Tyagi is Associate Professor at Pondicherry University since 2012. She has published numerous articles on Francophone Literature, Postcolonial and Feminist Writing. Her book Ananda Devi: Narration, Polyphony and Feminism was published in 2013 and was well received by critics.

H. Kalpana Rao is Professor in the Department of English, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. She has received several awards, she has several publications to her credit including a book, Quilting Relationships: A Cruise through Comparative Literary Studies. Her areas of interest include Canadian and American literature, women’s literature, gender and feminist studies, cultural and diaspora studies, and new literatures in English.