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Coolie Odyssey
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Author : David Dabydeen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Coolie Odyssey written by David Dabydeen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection probes the experience of diaspora,from India to the Caribbean and then on to,Britain.
Coolie Odyssey
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Author : David Dabydeen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Coolie Odyssey written by David Dabydeen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection probes the experience of diaspora,from India to the Caribbean and then on to,Britain.
Coolie Woman
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Author : Gaiutra Bahadur
language : en
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Release Date : 2013-09-26
Coolie Woman written by Gaiutra Bahadur and has been published by Hurst Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a ‘coolie’, the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husband, was pregnant and travelling alone. A century later, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past, hoping to solve a mystery: what made her leave her country? And had she also left behind a man? Gaiutra Bahadur, an American journalist, pursues traces of her great-grandmother over three continents. She also excavates the repressed history of some quarter of a million female coolies. Disparaged as fallen, many were runaways, widows or outcasts, and many migrated alone. Coolie Woman chronicles their epic passage from Calcutta to the Caribbean, from departures akin either to kidnap or escape, through sea voyages rife with sexploitation, to new worlds where women were in short supply. When they exercised the power this gave them, some fell victim to the machete, in brutal attacks, often fatal, by men whom they spurned. Sex with overseers both empowered and imperiled other women, in equal measure. It also precipitated uprisings, as a struggle between Indian men and their women intersected with one between coolies and their overlords.
Coolie Woman
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Author : Gaiutra Bahadur
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Coolie Woman written by Gaiutra Bahadur and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Political Science categories.
In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husband, was pregnant and travelling alone. A century later, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past, hoping to solve a mystery: what made her leave her country? And had she also left behind a man? Gaiutra Bahadur, an American journalist, pursues traces of her great-grandmother over three continents. She also excavates the repressed history of some quarter of a million female coolies. Disparaged as fallen, many were runaways, widows or outcasts, and many migrated alone. Coolie Woman chronicles their epic passage from Calcutta to the Caribbean, from departures akin either to kidnap or escape, through sea voyages rife with sexploitation, to new worlds where women were in short supply. When they exercised the power this gave them, some fell victim to the machete, in brutal attacks, often fatal, by men whom they spurned. Sex with overseers both empowered and imperiled other women, in equal measure. It also precipitated uprisings, as a struggle between Indian men and their women intersected with one between coolies and their overlords.
The Coolie Speaks
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Author : Lisa Yun
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-22
The Coolie Speaks written by Lisa Yun and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-22 with History categories.
Introducing radical counter-visions of race and slavery, and probing the legal and philosophical questions raised by indenture, The Coolie Speaks offers the first critical reading of a massive testimony case from Cuba in 1874. From this case, Yun traces the emergence of a "coolie narrative" that forms a counterpart to the "slave narrative." The written and oral testimonies of nearly 3,000 Chinese laborers in Cuba, who toiled alongside African slaves, offer a rare glimpse into the nature of bondage and the tortuous transition to freedom. Trapped in one of the last standing systems of slavery in the Americas, the Chinese described their hopes and struggles, and their unrelenting quest for freedom. Yun argues that the testimonies from this case suggest radical critiques of the "contract" institution, the basis for free modern society. The example of Cuba, she suggests, constitutes the early experiment and forerunner of new contract slavery, in which the contract itself, taken to its extreme, was wielded as a most potent form of enslavement and complicity. Yun further considers the communal biography of a next-generation Afro-Chinese Cuban author and raises timely theoretical questions regarding race, diaspora, transnationalism, and globalization.
Coolitude
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Author : Marina Carter
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2002
Coolitude written by Marina Carter and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.
1860 Pioneers Foundation Souvenir Brochure
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
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1860 Pioneers Foundation Souvenir Brochure written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with 1860 Settlers categories.
Worlds Within
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Author : Vilashini Cooppan
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-08
Worlds Within written by Vilashini Cooppan and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
From Conrad to Rushdie, from Du Bois, to Nggi, Worlds Within explores the changing form of novels, nations, and national identities, by attending to the ways in which political circumstances meet narratives of the psyche.
Slave Song
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Author : David Dabydeen
language : en
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Release Date : 2005
Slave Song written by David Dabydeen and has been published by Peepal Tree Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Creole dialects, English categories.
Songs of frustration and defiance from African slaves and displaced Indian laborers are expressed in a harsh and lyrical Guyanese Creole far removed from contemporary English in these provocative Caribbean poems. An insightful critical apparatus of English translations surrounds these lyrics, shedding light on their meaning, while at the same time cleverly commenting on the impossibility of translating Creole and parodying critical attempts to explain and contextualize Caribbean poetry. Twenty years after the initial release of this work, the power of these poems and the self-fashioned critique that accompanies them remain a lively and vital part of Caribbean literature.
Caribbean English Passages
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Author : Tobias Döring
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Caribbean English Passages written by Tobias Döring and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Caribbean Area categories.
Postcolonialism is used as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevence to the Caribbean experience.