Kali, Gangamai, and Dougla Consciousness in Moses Nagamootoo's "Hendree's Cure"

Mehta examines Moses Nagamootoo's novel, Hendree's Cure, which chronicles the life of the Madrasi community of Indians who inhabited the Corentyne village of Whim in the 1950s and 1960s. While creating certain aspects of early Madrasi village life based on semi-autobiographical fragments o...

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Published in:Callaloo 2004-04, Vol.27 (2), p.542-560
Main Author: Mehta, Brinda J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African culture
Blacks
Communities
Cultural identity
Divinity
Femininity
Gender roles
Hindus
Immigrants
Indian culture
Intentionality
Literary criticism
Mothers
Nagamootoo, Moses
Novels
Subjectivity
Writers
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Summary:Mehta examines Moses Nagamootoo's novel, Hendree's Cure, which chronicles the life of the Madrasi community of Indians who inhabited the Corentyne village of Whim in the 1950s and 1960s. While creating certain aspects of early Madrasi village life based on semi-autobiographical fragments of memory, Nagamootoo's intentionality focuses on the ways in which the Madrasi community finds its spiritual and cultural connections with the local Afro-Guyanese population of Whim rather than with the other Indian immigrants due to a certain commonality of experience shared by blacks and Madrasis based on social ostracism and cultural denigration.
ISSN:0161-2492
1080-6512
1080-6512
DOI:10.1353/cal.2004.0080