SOCI 4615 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Ethnography, Winti, Chutney Music
5 Mar 2016
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Indo-caribbean women most often represented as docile, loyal and submissive . The ways queering caribbean feminist discourse can actually work discursively to connect. Matikor provided a rare opportunity forwomen to claim a space of celebration and articulationthey shared gossip and jokes, sang traditional songs, and performed dances that were celebratory and sexually suggestive. Matikor was a place of healing where women could act out their resistance against the degradation and depersonalization imposed upon them by the ruling class. Acknowledging, expressing, and uplifting the erotic experiences of indo-caribbean women allows for a reflection in sacred cultural terms that does not force a rupture between queer subjects and their collective social history and present. The imposed split between private and public has long been criticized and debunked within dominant discourses of feminism as a way of forcibly confining women, their sexuality and their work to a realm of non-recognition.
