LEADER 04518nam 2200673 450 001 9910458701803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-9780-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442697805 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055821 035 $a(OCoLC)707712959 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442639 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486062 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11307190 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486062 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10430326 035 $a(PQKB)10166732 035 $a(CEL)433757 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226153 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272850 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672947 035 $a(DE-B1597)465219 035 $a(OCoLC)944176535 035 $a(OCoLC)999360074 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442697805 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672947 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258598 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055821 100 $a20160926h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture $enovels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific /$fMariam Pirbhai 210 1$aToronto, Ontario ;$aBuffalo, New York ;$aLondon, England :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2009. 210 4$d©2009 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-9964-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPART I: THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA -- $t1. The Multiple Voices of Indenture History: An Introduction -- $t2. New Approaches to an Old Diaspora: Theorizing Texts and Contexts -- $tPART II: AFRICA -- $t3. The Indenture Narrative of Mauritius: Deepchand Beeharry's That Others Might Live -- $t4. 'Passenger Indians' and Dispossessed Citizens in Uganda and South Africa: Peter Nazareth's In a Brown Mantle and Farida Karodia's Daughters of the Twilight -- $tPART III: THE CARIBBEAN -- $t5. New Confi gurations of Identity for the Indo-Guyanese 'This Time Generation': Rooplall Monar's Janjhat and Narmala Shewcharan's Tomorrow Is Another Day -- $t6. Indo-Trinidadian Fictions of Community within the Metanarratives of 'Faith': Lakshmi Persaud's Butterfl y in the Wind and Sharlow Mohammed's The Elect -- $tPART IV: ASIA-PACIFIC -- $t7. 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 -- $t8. From the Ganges to the South Seas: Fiji as 'Fatal Paradise' in Satendra Nandan's The Wounded Sea -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSouth Asian migration during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was largely comprised of indentured labourers sent to British colonies after the 1833 abolition of slavery. Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture 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.Mariam Pirbhai perceptively identifies common patterns, developments, and concerns in this cross-continental body of writing, including a 'vocabulary of indenture' that invokes the mythology and plight of the indentured labourer among a newly reconstituted community of colonial émigrés. Pirbhai's innovative study considers authors who fall outside the established canon of post-colonial writing, challenging readers to reconsider traditional peripheries as centres of literary and cultural production that have made significant contributions to the Anglophone novel. 606 $aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xSouth Asian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSouth Asian diaspora in literature 606 $aSouth Asians in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xSouth Asian authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSouth Asian diaspora in literature. 615 0$aSouth Asians in literature. 676 $a823/.914093553 700 $aPirbhai$b Mariam$f1970-$0890505 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458701803321 996 $aMythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture$91989202 997 $aUNINA