Voices and Silences: Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean

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Synopsis
Indian indentured emigration is among the most notable social phenomena of modern history, which sent over one million men and women to tropical sugar colonies in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Indenture began in the 1830s and lasted till 1920; a period which finds little or no mention either in history textbooks or in literature. This book takes a closer look at some of the important narratives on indenture and evaluates them in order to highlight the experience of the indentured people across the plantation colonies in Fiji and in the Caribbean. The story of indenture is the story of betrayal, of trauma and of resistance. It is also a narrative of resilience, assimilation and acculturation. This book offers an in-depth literary study to reveal that there exists a language of indenture, one that permeates all the texts written on the subject. The texts speak to, and for each other, thereby revealing the indenture experience to the reader.
Copyright:
2023

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
216 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000782981
Related ISBNs:
9781003341499, 9781032377070, 9781032377049
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Anjali Singh and Manohar Publishers
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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