Voices and Silences - Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis From Fiji and the Caribbean

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.

List of contents

1. Cartographies of Indenture: Historical Overview 2. The Girmitiyas of Fiji: A Forgotten Generation 3. The Jahajis: Indentured Indians in the Caribbean 4. The Aesthetics of Narrative: Poetics of Indenture 5. Emerging from Indenture/ship: Evolving Being and Belonging

About the author

Anjali Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India. She has a PhD in English and has travelled widely, presenting research papers in Australia and Fiji.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anjali Singh
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032377049
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3237704-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Caribbean islands, Colonialism & imperialism, Literary studies: general, Colonialism and imperialism, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity