Coolitude - An Anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora

Informationen zum Autor Marina Carter has worked and studied for many years in Mauritius, where she founded a pioneering NGO called the Centre for Research on Indian Ocean Societies (CRIOS). She was recently appointed as Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh. Khal Torabully completed his PhD in Lyon in 1976. His interest in mosaic identity brought forward an innovative book, 'Cale d'étoiles-coolitude', the founding text of the coolie migration viewed from the sea voyage, as space of identity construction/deconstruction in the post-modernist sense. Klappentext A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; The Coolie Odyssey: A Voyage In Time and Space; Thrice Victimised: Casting The Coolie; Surviving Indenture; Reclaiming The 'Other': Diaspora Indians And The Coolie Heritage; Some Theoretical Premises of Coolitude; Conclusion: Revoicing the Coolie; Poetic and Critical Texts of Coolitude; Notes; Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Marina Carter, Marina Torabully Carter, Carter Marina, Khal Torabully, Torabully Khal
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9781843310068
• ISBN: 978-1-84331-006-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Anthem Southeast Asian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General