Seeing Difference: Visual Feminist Praxis, Identity, and Desire in Indo-Caribbean Women’s Art and Knowledge

Abstract

This chapter traces the fundamental contributions of Patricia Mohammed in the development of Caribbean feminism by offering a specific genealogy of her knowledge production that is Indo-Caribbean focused and expansive in its definition of Caribbeanness. Mohammed’s groundbreaking study of visual culture is utilized alongside her theorizing of Caribbean feminism in order to situate representations by Indo-Caribbean women, namely, Indo-Trinidadian contemporary visual artist Shalini Seereeram. I argue that Seereeram’s visual art embodies and visually offers what Mohammed calls for in her knowledge production and praxis. It is through this visual landscape that we can see a particular claiming of the Caribbean landscape beyond/outside notions of the “Caribbean picturesque” or “tropical paradise.” In other words, “seeing difference” embraces the realities of a dynamic and unique Caribbean landscape expressed through the theories and visual art as knowledge produced by Indo-Caribbean women.

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