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Author | : Marina Carter |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843310031 |
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A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.
Author | : Khal |
Publisher | : French List |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780857427854 |
Download Cargo Hold of Stars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cargo Hold of Stars is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Many were transported overseas to other European colonies. Kept in close quarters in the ship's cargo hold, many died. Most never returned home. With Cargo Hold of Stars, Torabully introduces the concept of 'Coolitude' in a way that echoes Aimé Césaire's term 'Negritude, ' imbuing the term with dignity and pride, as well as a strong and resilient cultural identity and language. Stating that ordinary language was not equipped to bring to life the diverse voices of indenture, Torabully has developed a 'poetics of Coolitude' a new French, peppered with Mauritian Creole, wordplay, and neologisms--and always musical. The humor in these linguistic acrobatics serves to underscore the violence in which his poems are steeped. Deftly translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Cargo Hold of Stars is the song of an uprooting, of the destruction and the reconstruction of the indentured laborer's identity. But it also celebrates setting down roots, as it conjures an ideal homeland of fraternity and reconciliation in which bodies, memories, stories, and languages mingle--a compelling odyssey that ultimately defines the essence of humankind.
Author | : Véronique Bragard |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789052014180 |
Download Transoceanic Dialogues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work offers a close reading of literary works in French and in English by women writers whose ancestors originally came to the Caribbean or across the Indian Ocean as indentured labourers.
Author | : Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3839437334 |
Download Bonded Labour Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.
Author | : Marina Carter |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1843313677 |
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Coolitude is both an intellectual interpretation of and a poetic and artistic immersion into the world of the vanished coolie. This collection of previously unpublished texts, poems and sketches captures the essence of the Indian plantation experience and deconstructs traditional depictions of the status of the coolie in the British Empire.
Author | : Nancy Naomi Carlson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780857426451 |
Download An Infusion of Violets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Using the same musical sense of language she applies to her translations, Nancy Naomi Carlson masterfully interprets herself in An Infusion of Violets. The sometimes erotic, sometimes melancholy landscapes she creates as the self-appointed sitar's "ragged throat, pitched / between here and when, / caught in quartertones," take our breath away. Carlson describes an interior world where tears can produce "so much salt a body floats away," where "music tuned to loss descends with rain," and where hope is placed in the "kill-cure." Here we encounter Carlson's ex-husbands and luminaries such as Rachmaninoff and Monet, among others. Filled with striking images and sensuous language, An Infusion of Violets is an evocative mix of formal and free-verse poems.
Author | : Ravindra K. Jain |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136704140 |
Download Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Research articles on Indian diaspora.
Author | : William Agnew Paton |
Publisher | : New York : C. Scribner's Sons |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Antilles, Lesser |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jade Tsui-yu Lee |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9811563632 |
Download Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Departing from Jacques Derrida’s appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities. Seeing war experiences and their associative diasporas and affects as the core and axis, it considers the multifarious poetics and politics of minority trauma writings, and posits a possible interpretive framework for contemporary Asian-American writings, including those written by Julie Otsuka, Joseph Craig Danner, Monique Truong, Nguyen Viet Thanh, Janice Lowe Shinebourne, and Andre Lamontagne. As these writings contain works regarding Japanese-American, Indo-Chinese Guyanese, Chinese Quebeçois, Vietnamese exiles/refugees, and Vietnam-American experiences, this book presents a broad cross-cultural view on migration and minority issues triggered by wars and precarious conditions, as the diversified experiences examined here epitomize an intricate historical intimacy across four continents: Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe.
Author | : Nira Wickramasinghe |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231552262 |
Download Slave in a Palanquin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued presence of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century has practically vanished from collective memory in both the Sinhalese and Tamil communities. Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in the wake of abolition. She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who sought permission for his son to be circumcised; and others, enslaved or emancipated, who challenged their status. Drawing on legal cases, petitions, and other colonial records to recover individual voices and quotidian moments, Wickramasinghe offers a meditation on the archive of slavery. She examines how color-based racial thinking gave way to more nuanced debates about identity, complicating conceptions of blackness and racialization. A deeply interdisciplinary book with a focus on recovering subaltern resistance, Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.