03598nam 2200685 450 991081930950332120230529051559.01-4426-9780-610.3138/9781442697805(CKB)2560000000055821(OCoLC)707712959(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442639(SSID)ssj0000486062(PQKBManifestationID)11307190(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486062(PQKBWorkID)10430326(PQKB)10166732(CEL)433757(CaBNvSL)slc00226153(MiAaPQ)EBC3272850(MiAaPQ)EBC4672947(DE-B1597)465219(OCoLC)944176535(OCoLC)999360074(DE-B1597)9781442697805(Au-PeEL)EBL4672947(CaPaEBR)ebr11258598(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105844(EXLCZ)99256000000005582120160926h20092009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific /Mariam PirbhaiToronto, Ontario ;Buffalo, New York ;London, England :University of Toronto Press,2009.©20091 online resource (273 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-9964-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji.Commonwealth fiction (English)South Asian authorsHistory and criticismSouth Asian diaspora in literatureSouth Asians in literatureGreat BritainColoniesIn literatureCommonwealth fiction (English)South Asian authorsHistory and criticism.South Asian diaspora in literature.South Asians in literature.823/.914093553Pirbhai Mariam1970-1597311MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819309503321Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture4065637UNINA