Espinet, Ramabai (1948–)
摘要
Ramabai Espinet is a Trinidadian academic, novelist, and poet of Indian origin. Her work explores the ethno-cultural ties and tensions that inform Indian Caribbean diasporic sensibility. Espinet was born into an Indian Christian family of indentured descent. She completed her Ph.D. from the University of West Indies (1993) on the reception of Euro-Creole women writers in Caribbean literature with reference to Jean Rhys and Phyllis Shand Allfrey. Later, she moved to Canada and taught Caribbean studies at New College and English Literature at Seneca College.