03512nam 22005415 450 991030003880332120201005194756.03-319-99055-110.1007/978-3-319-99055-2(CKB)4100000006674614(MiAaPQ)EBC5528143(DE-He213)978-3-319-99055-2(EXLCZ)99410000000667461420180927d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAnglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture[electronic resource] The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire /by Alison Klein1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (261 pages)New Caribbean Studies,2691-30113-319-99054-3 1. Introduction: The Ties That Bind -- 2. To Have and to Hold: The Role of Marriage in Nonfiction Indenture Narratives -- 3.Tying the Knot: Early Depictions of Indenture -- 4.Tangled Up: Gendered Metaphors of Nation in Contemporary Indo-Caribbean Narratives -- 5. Family Ties: Embodiment of Female Laborers in the Poetry of Indenture -- 6. At the End of their Tether: Women Writing about Indenture -- 7. Conclusion: Loose Threads.This book is the first comprehensive study of Anglophone literature depicting the British Imperial system of indentured labor in the Caribbean. Through an examination of intimate relationships within indenture narratives, this text traces the seductive hierarchies of empire – the oppressive ideologies of gender, ethnicity, and class that developed under imperialism and indenture and that continue to impact the Caribbean today. It demonstrates that British colonizers, Indian and Chinese laborers, and formerly enslaved Africans negotiated struggles for political and economic power through the performance of masculinity and the control of migrant women, and that even those authors who critique empire often reinforce patriarchy as they do so. Further, it identifies a common thread within the work of those authors who resist the hierarchies of empire: a poetics of kinship, or, a focus on the importance of building familial ties across generations and across classifications of people.New Caribbean Studies,2691-3011Latin American literatureLiterature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature, Modern—21st centuryOriental literatureLatin American/Caribbean Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838010Contemporary Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/815000Asian Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/831000Latin American literature.Literature, Modern—20th century.Literature, Modern—21st century.Oriental literature.Latin American/Caribbean Literature.Contemporary Literature.Asian Literature.809.93358Klein Alisonauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut952955BOOK9910300038803321Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture2154519UNINA