LEADER 03512nam 22005415 450 001 9910300038803321 005 20201005194756.0 010 $a3-319-99055-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-99055-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000006674614 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5528143 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-99055-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006674614 100 $a20180927d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture$b[electronic resource] $eThe Seductive Hierarchies of Empire /$fby Alison Klein 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (261 pages) 225 1 $aNew Caribbean Studies,$x2691-3011 311 $a3-319-99054-3 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book is the first comprehensive study of Anglophone literature depicting the British Imperial system of indentured labor in the Caribbean. Through an examination of intimate relationships within indenture narratives, this text traces the seductive hierarchies of empire ? the oppressive ideologies of gender, ethnicity, and class that developed under imperialism and indenture and that continue to impact the Caribbean today. It demonstrates that British colonizers, Indian and Chinese laborers, and formerly enslaved Africans negotiated struggles for political and economic power through the performance of masculinity and the control of migrant women, and that even those authors who critique empire often reinforce patriarchy as they do so. Further, it identifies a common thread within the work of those authors who resist the hierarchies of empire: a poetics of kinship, or, a focus on the importance of building familial ties across generations and across classifications of people. 410 0$aNew Caribbean Studies,$x2691-3011 606 $aLatin American literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern?21st century 606 $aOriental literature 606 $aLatin American/Caribbean Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838010 606 $aContemporary Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/815000 606 $aAsian Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/831000 615 0$aLatin American literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?21st century. 615 0$aOriental literature. 615 14$aLatin American/Caribbean Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aAsian Literature. 676 $a809.93358 700 $aKlein$b Alison$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0952955 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300038803321 996 $aAnglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture$92154519 997 $aUNINA