Baugh, Edward. “Music, Memory, Resistance: Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination.” Journal of West Indian Literature 19.1 (2010): 87–95,133. Print.

Discusses Calypso in some detail, which offers insight into one of the key themes of The Swinging Bridge. This piece is a review from a conference; it contains some useful information about such cultural background as Caribbean music and literature.

Budhu, Reshma. “Writer, Activist, Performer: Ramabai Espinet.” Section15.ca: Rebels Without a Clause. N.p., 9 Dec. 1997. Web. 21 Oct. 2014.

Clark, Patricia. “The Swinging Bridge: Ramabai Espinet.” College Quarterly. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2014.

Crenshaw, Kimberle. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color." Stanford Law Review 43.6 (1991): 1241-99.

Dabydeen, Cyril. “Places We Come from: Voices of Caribbean Canadian Writers (In English) and Multicultural Contexts.” World Literature Today 73.2 (1999): 231–237. JSTOR. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.

Dabydeen’s article discusses Caribbean Canadian writers, as the title states, and, in doing so, discusses the different paths that writers take in “[re-creating] the Caribbean past” (234). Espinet is one writer discussed by the author, specifically her 1991 publication, Nuclear Season.

Hamilton, Njelle. ""Music and a Story": Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge." Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature. Ed. Joy A. I. Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai. New York: Routledge, 2013. 70-92. Print.

Huntington, Lane, Chloe Heather Watlington, and Sam Haverstock. “Ramabai Espinet.” 2 Sept. 2005. Web. Voices from the Gaps.

Kanhai, Roseanne. “Fire in de Cane: Metaphores of Indo-Trinidiadian Identity in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge.” Ethnic Studies Review 31.2 (2008): 71–99. Print.

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. Ed. Tuomas (ed. and introd.) Huttunen et al. xxii, 364 pp. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. 311–332. Print.

Luciano Feal, Elsa. “Recovering the Past in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge.” Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 13.49-50 (2008): 389–396. Print.

Mehta, Brinda J. “Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge.” Small Axe 10.3 (2006): 19–36. Print.

Mehta’s article explores how the “kala pani poetics” gave outcasted women in India, such as widows, the mobility to migrate to other lands while simultaneously recovering the fragmented maternal history of Mona’s ancestors. Mehta also focuses on the Indo-Caribbean identity and the implications of creolization for Indian women. This article provided an additional perspective on how to analyze and further evaluate The Swinging Bridge and its significance for both the Mona and Espinet. 

Pirbhai, Mariam. “The Jahaji-Bhain Principle: A Critical Survey of the Indo-Caribbean Women’s Novel, 1990-2009.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 45.1 (2010): 37–56. jcl.sagepub.com. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.

Pirbhai’s article “provides the first critical survey of the Indo-Caribbean women’s novel, a distinct sub-genre which now spans approximately two decades” (37). As such, it delves into “feminist poetics” as well as the politics of sex and race, which “have so often overdetermined women’s lives” (37).

Puig, Raquel. “The ‘Deserving Destitutes’ in A House for Mr. Biswas and The Swinging Bridge.” Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 12.46 (2007): 707–713. Print.

Puri, Shalini. “Race, Rape, and Representation: Indo-Caribbean Women and Cultural Nationalism.” Cultural Critique 36 (1997): 119–163. JSTOR. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.

Puri’s article, as a whole, is relevant to our project because it describes many of the instances of oppression we have described in our analysis of TSB. However, Puri’s article is useful to us in another way, as well. Puri includes a section specifically about Espinet, entitled “Writing a Dougla Feminism: Ramabai Espinet’s ‘Barred: Trinidad 1987’” (144). In her writing, Puri discusses no fewer than two of the major themes in Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge, including sexual violence against Indo-Caribbean women and the idea of a cultural and social hybridity that existed in Trinidad in such a form that breaks down barriers between ethnic groups. Puri’s conclusion on “Dougla Poetics and Resistant Identities” is particularly interesting and includes important analysis of many different keywords and key ideas from The Swinging Bridge, including the idea of “Indianness” and silencing of the past (155). 

Rahemtullah, Omme-Salma. “Interrogating ‘Indianness’: Identity and Diasporic Consciousness among Twice Migrants.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 7.1-2 (2009): n. pag. Print.

“Ramabai Espinet | Asian Heritage.” RULA: Asian Heritage in Canada. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2014.

This is another short, online description of Espinet’s life and biography. It also delves into her numerous publications, offering a substantive bibliography of the author, as well as a selection of criticism on the author.

Ramabai Espinet: “Coming Home”. Dir. Frances-Anne Solomon. 2005.

Rickards, Colin. “The Swinging Bridge; We Revisit Ramabai Espinet, Our Storyteller of the Month.” CaribbeanTales.Org. N.p., 29 Mar. 2005. Web. 21 Oct. 2014.

This short online article about Espinet offers a short and superficial explanation of TSB and some history of Espinet. 

Savory, Elaine. “Interview with Ramabai Espinet.” Wadabagei : A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora 10.2 (2007): 82–96. Print.

Savory’s interview with Espinet offer some interesting insights into The Swinging Bridge. 

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. Ed. Joy A. I. Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai. New York: Routledge, 2013. 229-52. Print.

Waisvisz, Sarah Gabriella. “Fugitive Rhythms: Re-Imagining Diasporic Caribbean-Canadian Communities in Ramabai Espinet’s ‘The Swinging Bridge’, Tessa McWatt’s ‘Out of My Skin’, and Dionne Brand’s ‘What We All Long For.’” M.A. McGill University (Canada), 2006. ProQuest. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.

Weisvez’s article discusses, at length, The Swinging Bridge’s relationship to a silencing of history, as exhibited by the novel’s protagonist, Mona, a self-proclaimed “nowharian.” Furthermore, Weisvez’s article explores the parallel existent between Mona and Espinet as Espinet resists a history of dispossession through the creation of this artistic form of history. It is important to note that Weisvez touches upon the broader framework of diasporic discourse and theory and discusses the theory’s implications, since traditional diasporic discourse excludes oppressed women.

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. Ed. Joy (ed. and introd.) Mahabir and Mariam (ed. and introd.) Pirbhai. xi, 274 pp. New York, NY: Routledge, 2013. 229–252. Print. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures (RRPL): 41.