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Pirbhai Mariam <1970-> |
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Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / / Mariam Pirbhai |
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Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Commonwealth fiction (English) - South Asian authors - History and criticism |
South Asian diaspora in literature |
South Asians in literature |
Great Britain Colonies In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1: The South Asian Diaspora. Multiple voices of indenture history: an introduction ; New approaches to an old Diaspora: theorizing texts and contexts -- pt. 2: Africa. The indenture narrative of Mauritius: Deepchand Beeharry's That others might live ; "Passenger Indians" and disposed citizens in Uganda and South Africa: Peter Nazareth's In a brown mantle and Farida Karodia's Daughters of the twilight -- pt. 3: The Caribbean. New configurations of identity for the Indo-Guyanese "this time generation": Rooplall Monar's Janjhat and Narmala Shewcharan's Tomorrow is another day ; Indo-Trinidadian fictions of community within the metanarratives of "faith": Lakshmi Persaud's Butterfly in the wind and Sharlow Mohammed's The elect -- part 4: Asia-Pacific. The politics of (the English) language in Malaysia and Singapore: K.S. Maniam's The return and Gopal Baratham's A candle or the sun ; From the Ganges to South Seas: Fiji as "fatal paradise" in Satendra Nandan's The wounded sea. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the |
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