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Kala Pani: Aesthetic Deathscapes and the Flow of Water after Indenture

In: Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas
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Nalini Mohabir Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, nalini.mohabir@concordia.ca

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This article focuses on the kala pani (dark waters) as a deathscape particular to indentured labourers and their descendants. Following a historical discussion of representations of the kala pani, the author turns to contemporary artists Maya Mackrandilal and Andil Gosine to explore how their artistic engagements are rerouting the flows of the kala pani away from discourses of caste stigma or the finality of (social) death to a reckoning of past and future time for those living in the diasporic space of North America.

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