| Description |
1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Kala pani crossings: India in conversation -- PART I: Shifting the gaze -- 1. Theorising the troubled black waters -- 2. Moving beyond the memory question: Narratives of South Asian indenture, global memory capitalism, and its discontents -- 3. Connected literatures and histories across Kala pani: Perspectives from India -- 4. Escaped or tricked? Why Indian women crossed -- 5. The 'Terror' of Kala pani: A colonial myth? -- PART II: Across the oceans |
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6. Caste travelling across the Kala pani: The case of the unborn V. S. Naipaul -- 7. The cult of Draupadi and its propagation through indentured labour in reunion island -- 8. 'I will survive on a Seer of Saag the full year': Uncovering women's work, belonging and the aftermath of Kala pani in select Bidesia songs -- 9. A passage to Mauritius: The ebb and flow of Kala pani in Hindustani cinema -- PART III: Re-imagining the Kala pani narrative -- 10. Coolie life-writing and its shifting locations: Narrativising Kala pani within the nation and in the diaspora |
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11. Pioneers across Kala pani: Reading Girmitiyas in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge, Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman and Totaram Sanadya's Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands -- 12. Exilic trajectories of crossing the Kala pani: Locating female subjectivity in the writings of Ramabai Espinet and Gaiutra Bahadur -- 13. Retrieving the history of coolie women: Historiography, research and the role of agencies in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge and Peggy Mohan's Jahajin |
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14. The politics of representation and the interface of Sycorax and the snake woman: A study of Olive Senior's 'Arrival of the Snake-Woman' -- Select Bibliography |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Indentured servants -- India -- History
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East Indian diaspora -- History -- 19th century
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East Indians -- Foreign countries -- History
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East Indian diaspora
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East Indians -- Foreign countries
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Indentured servants
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India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Misrahi-Barak, Judith
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| ISBN |
9781000513196 |
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100051319X |
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