LEADER 05839oam 2200745 a 450 001 9910823400303321 005 20240112215037.0 010 $a1-283-35991-X 010 $a9786613359919 010 $a90-272-8216-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000071063 035 $a(EBL)815996 035 $a(OCoLC)767503048 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551483 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12250033 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551483 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10542155 035 $a(PQKB)10048944 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC815996 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL815996 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10518059 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL335991 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000071063 100 $a20110914d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIndentured identities $eresistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji /$fFarzana Gounder 210 1$aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia :$cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aStudies in narrative (SiN),$x1568-2706 ;$vv. 15 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a90-272-2655-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIndentured Identities; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Shards of memories; List of figures, maps, pictures, tables; Gloss; Getting acquainted with the Girmityas; 1.1 The Girmit narrators; 1.2 The language of the life narratives; 1.3 Researching Girmit with the Girmityas; 1.4 The research; 1.5 The co-construction of Girmit; Gabriel Aiyappa's Girmit; 2.1 Fiji's call for Girmityas; 2.2 Girmit across the kala pani; 2.3 Social structure and its problems on the Girmit plantations; 2.4 And after; 2.5 Summary and discussion 327 $aBehind the scenes of Girmit Gatha; 3.1 Girmit Gatha; 3.2 Interviewees; 3.3 Interviewers; 3.4 The interview; 3.5 Strengths of Girmit Gatha as data; 3.6 Limitations of the Girmit Gatha life narratives; 3.7 Summary and discussion; Transposing the oral into written; 4.1 The process as a whole; 4.2 Transcribing; 4.3 Transcriptional symbols; 4.4 Transliterating; 4.5 Translating; 4.6 Summary and discussion; Ram Rattan Mishar's life narrative construction; 5.1 Differentiating components by focus; 5.2 Differentiating components by structure; 5.3 Causal chain 327 $a5.4 Ram Rattan Mishar's well-formed narrative; Abstract; Orientation; Character orientation; Complicating action; Resolution; Evaluation; Coda; 5.5 Ghori and Guldhari's habitual narratives; 5.6 Sequencing of incidents in the life narrative; 5.7 Summary and discussion; Ram Rattan Mishar's identity and agency reconstructions; 6.1 Positioning analysis; 6.2 Levels of positioning analysis; 6.3 Merging Labov with Bamberg; Level 1; Level 2; Level 3; 6.4 Summary and discussion; Restorying Girmit; Guldhari Maharaj; 7.1 Descriptive abstract: How it was; 7.2 Structure 327 $a7.3 Descriptive complicating action Part 1: In the lines; 7.4 Descriptive complicating action Part 2: On the plantation; 7.5 Descriptive resolution: Pay day; 7.6 Descriptive Coda: But they survived; 7.7 Summary and discussion; Ram Sundar Maharaj; 8.1 Structure; Part 1; 8.2 Abstract of life narrative; 8.3 Event narrative: The reason we came to Fiji; Orientation; Complicating action and resolution; 8.4 Orientation 1: We served Girmit for five years; 8.5 Habitual narrative 1: The work we had to do; Descriptive abstract; Descriptive complicating action; 8.6 Orientation 2: Where is Bachkanya? 327 $aPart 28.7 Habitual narrative 2: There was a sense of community; Descriptive abstract; Descriptive complicating action; Descriptive resolution; Descriptive coda; 8.8 Summary and discussion; Jasoda Ramdin; 9.1 Structure; 9.2 Event Narrative 1: The first day; Abstract; Orientation; Event sub-narrative 1a: In the lines; Event Sub-narrative 1b: On the plantation; Event sub-narrative 1c: Back in the lines; Coda; 9.3 Event Narrative 2: I was hit; Abstract; Complicating action; Resolution; Coda; 9.4 Event Narrative 3: She was beaten; Abstract; Complicating action; 9.5 Habitual narrative: The consequences of a failed resistance 330 $aThe book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not been recordings of the laborers' life narratives. It is seven of these audio recordings, made for public broadcast, which form the data for a fine-grained language-analysis to unearth the life-world of indenture. 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