- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Literary Criticism
Full Description
Customers based in the United States and Canada, please order from herehttps://bit.ly/2GAV2YRThe abolition of slavery was thecatalyst for the arrival of the first Indianindentured labourers into the sugar colonies ofMauritius (1834), Guyana (1838) and Trinidad (1845),followed some years later by theinception of the system in South Africa (1860)and Fiji (1879). By the time indenture was abolished in the British Empire(1917-20), over one million Indians had beencontracted, theoverwhelming majority of whom never returned toIndia. Today, an Indian indentured labour diaspora isto be found in Commonwealth countriesincluding Belize, Kenya, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Seychelles.Indenture, whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into anagreement to work in a colony in return for a fixed period of labour, was open to abuse fromrecruitment to plantation. Hidden within this little-known system ofnineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian migration under the British Empire are hithertoneglected stories of workers who were both exploited and unfree. These include indentured historiesfrom Madeira to the Caribbean, from West Africa to the Caribbean, and from China to the Caribbean, Mauritius andSouth Africa.To mark the centenary of the abolitionof the system in the British Empire (2017-20) this volume brings together, for the firsttime, new writing from across the Commonwealth. It is a unique attempt toexplore, through the medium of poetry and prose, the indentured heritage of the twenty-first century.
Contents
Introduction David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and Tina K. RamnarineBiographies The RebelKevin HoseinMother WoundsGitanjali PyndiahMama LiberiaAngelica A. OluochMy Father the TeacherPrithiraj R. DullayGandhi and the GirmityaSatendra NandanPepsi, Pie and Swimming Pools in-the-SkyCynthia KistasamyWaterloo: At Siewdass Sadhu's Temple in the SeaAnita SethiTalanoa with my GrandmotherNoelle Nive MoaPassage from IndiaAnirood Singhindia has left usEddie Bruce-JonesChutney LoveGabrielle Jamela HoseinBrotherhood of the Boat: Fijians and Football in North America Akhtar MohammedThe HeistDeirdre Jonklaas CadiramenBucketsStella Chong SingThe Tamarind Tree: vignettes from a plantation frontier in Fiji Brij V. Lal'I go sen' for you' Fawzia Muradali KaneParadise Island Priya N. HeinBuilding Walls Kama La MackerelThe Legend of Nagakanna Aneeta Sundararaj Great-grandmother, Ma Jennifer RahimHomecoming Suzanne BhaganErased Athol WilliamsFamished Eels Mary RokonadravuRights of Passage Patti-Anne AliThe Protest March that Ended Indian Indentureship in St Vincent Arnold N. ThomasSita and Jatayu Lelawattee Manoo-RahmingMemoir. Tales of the Sea: a sisterhood of the boat Gaiutra BahadurPot-bellied Sardar David Dabydeen
