LEADER 03598nam 2200685 450 001 9910791554203321 005 20230529051559.0 010 $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(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105844 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,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 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 $apt. 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. 330 $aPirbhai 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. 606 $aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xSouth Asian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSouth Asian diaspora in literature 606 $aSouth Asians in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xIn literature 615 0$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-$01465564 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791554203321 996 $aMythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture$93732652 997 $aUNINA