Kala Pani Crossings

Kala Pani Crossings

Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India's Perspective

Bhardwaj, Ashutosh; Misrahi-Barak, Judith

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2021

228

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Inglês

9780367760885

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: Kala Pani Crossings: India in Conversation PART I: Shifting the Gaze 1. Theorizing 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 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 'Kala Pani' in '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 - Narrativizing Kala Pani within the Nation and in the Diaspora 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 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
Tamil Nadu;South Asian Diaspora Studies;Indian Plantation Diaspora;South Asian Indenture;Bhojpuri Region;Ramabai Espinet;Khal Torabully;Jahaji Bhais;Coolie Woman;Kala Pani;Ibis Trilogy;Indian Indentured Woman;East Indies;Colonial Administration;19th Century India;Swinging Bridge;Indo-Trinidadian Women;Circuitous;Violated;Young Man;Hill Coolie;Coolie System;Reunion Island;Meaningful Entry Point;Steam Ships