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TitleGulab

Creator nameMaharaj, Renluka

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican (born Trinidad and Tobago)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date2020

Object typePainting

MaterialsAcrylic paint, acrylic markers, glitter, rhinestones, and archival photo on canvas

LocationUnknown

SubjectsIndentured servants--Caribbean Area--HistoryWomen--Portraits--Caribbean Area--21st centuryCaribbean American women artists--21st centuryArt, American--Caribbean influences

Statusin Pelting Mangoes

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3. What She Would Have Said: A Conversation with Renluka Maharaj

Natasha Bissonauth

Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art

A visual artist working in Colorado, New York, and Trinidad and Tobago, Renluka Maharaj (b. 1966) is motivated in her aesthetic encounters with archival fragments by a desire not only to exhume stories of indenture but to foreground the women who have held them, both then and now. In her series Pelting Mangoes, for example, food becomes a conduit that braids childhood memories in the...

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Natasha Bissonauth

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31726&redirecttoanchor=106812

Chapter subject tags:Indentured servants--Caribbean Area--HistoryWomen--Portraits--Caribbean Area--21st centuryCaribbean American women artists--21st centuryVisual culture--Caribbean Area--21st centuryWomen artists--Caribbean Area--21st centuryFood--Caribbean Area--HistoryMaharaj, RenlukaColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistoryTropical fruit--Caribbean Area--HistoryResistance (Philosophy) in artFolklore--Caribbean Area--History

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