Espinet, Ramabai

About Ramabai Espinet

Biography and Bibliography (Asian Heritage in Canada)

Biography (Voices from the Gaps)

Budhu, Reshma. "Ramabai Espinet." Section15.ca, 9 Dec. 1997

Reviews

Kanaganayakam, Chelva. “Closing the Circle.” Canadian Literature, vol. 190, 2006

Callahan, David. “The Swinging Bridge.” Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, 2004

Birrell, Heather. “The Swinging Bridge.” Quill & Quire, vol. 69, no. 10, 2003

Lahey, Anita. “Reviews.” Herizons, vol. 8, no. 4, 1995

Burns, Heather. "Creation Fire: A CAFRA Anthology of Caribbean Women's Poetry by Ramabai Espinet." Callaloo, vol. 16, no. 3, 1993

De Cairnes Narain, Denise. “Creation Fire: A CAFRA Anthology of Caribbean Women's Poetry/Lovelines for a Goat-Born Lady.” Black Scholar, vol. 23, no. 1, 1993

Interviews

Savory, Elaine. “Interview with Ramabai Espinet.” Wadabagei, vol. 10, no. 2, 2007

“Ramabai Espinet.” Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets, Dawes (ed.), 2000

Criticism

Alonso, María Alonso. “Pursuing the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora through Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge.” Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing: Beyond Trishanku, Bhat (ed.), 2018

Kuwabong, Dannabang. “Landscape and Diasporic Citizenship(s) in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge and Nuclear Seasons.” Confluences 2: Essays on the New Canadian Literature, Aziz (ed.), 2017

Jeffers, Asha. “Unstable Indianness: Double Diaspora in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge and M. G. Vassanji's When She Was Queen.” South Asian Review, vol. 37, no. 1, 2016

Solbiac, Rodolphe. “Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge as a Refunctioning of Neil Bissoondath’s A Casual Brutality and The Worlds within Her.” International Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, 2015

Misrahi, Judith. “Rifts and Riffs, Roots and Routes: Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge.” Tracing the New Indian Diaspora, Dwivedi (ed.), 2014

Solbiac, Rodolphe. “Revising Female Indian Memory: Ramabai Espinet's Reconstruction of an Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in The Swinging Bridge.” Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature, Mahabir and Pirbhai (eds.), 2013

Hamilton, Njelle. “'Music and a Story': Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge.” Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature, Mahabir and Pirbhai (eds.), 2013

Sands-O'Connor, Karen. “Interrogating the Presence of the Double Diaspora in Asian- and Indo-Caribbean Women Writers for Children.” Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature, Mahabir and Pirbhai (eds.), 2013

Alexander, Simone A. James. “'Two Bo-Rat Can't Live in the Same Hole': Revis(ion)ing Indo-Caribbean Female Subjectivity in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge.” India and the Diasporic Imagination, Christian and Misrahi-Barak (eds.), 2011

Birbalsingh, Frank. “Identity Formation in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge.” Arts Journal, vol. 5, no. 1-2, 2009

Luciano Feal, Elsa. “Recovering the Past in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge.” La Torre, vol. 12, 2008

Kuortti, Joel. “Over the Black Water: Silenced Narratives of Diaspora in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge.” Seeking the Self - Encountering the Other: Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation, Huttunen et al. (eds.), 2008

Mehta, Brinda. “Engendering History: A Poetics of the 'Kala Pani' in Ramabai Espinet's 'The Swinging Bridge'.” Small Axe, vol. 21, 2006

Works

Novels

The Swinging Bridge (2004)

Children’s and Young Adult’s Books

Ninja’s Carnival (1994)

The Princess of Spadina: A Tale of Toronto (1992)

Poetry Collections

Nuclear Seasons (1991)

As editor: Creation Fire: A CAFRA Anthology of Caribbean Women's Poetry (1990)

Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories

With Sherene H. Razack. "Afterword." Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms, 2006

“The Invisible Woman in West Indian Fiction.” The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature, Donnell and Welsh (eds.), 1996

“Indian Cuisine.” The Massachusetts Review, vol. 35, no. 3-4, 1994

As editor: Automation and Information in the Caribbean: Port of Spain, Trinidad, May 6-12, 1984 (1984)

Audio and Audiovisual Material

IGDS ICFT A Literary Evening — Ramabai Espinet Part 1. YouTube, 13 Jan. 2016

IGDS ICFT A Literary Evening — Ramabai Espinet Part 2. YouTube, 13 Jan. 2016

Ramabai Espinet on Her First Reading. YouTube, 18 Dec. 2007

Ramabai Espinet Talks about Indian Indenture. YouTube, 13 Nov. 2007

Ramabai Espinet on The Swinging Bridge. YouTube, 9 Nov. 2007