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Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / / Mariam Pirbhai
| Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / / Mariam Pirbhai |
| Autore | Pirbhai Mariam <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.914093553 |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth fiction (English) - South Asian authors - History and criticism
South Asian diaspora in literature South Asians in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4426-9780-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA -- 1. The Multiple Voices of Indenture History: An Introduction -- 2. New Approaches to an Old Diaspora: Theorizing Texts and Contexts -- PART II: AFRICA -- 3. The Indenture Narrative of Mauritius: Deepchand Beeharry's That Others Might Live -- 4. '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 -- PART III: THE CARIBBEAN -- 5. New Confi gurations of Identity for the Indo-Guyanese 'This Time Generation': Rooplall Monar's Janjhat and Narmala Shewcharan's Tomorrow Is Another Day -- 6. Indo-Trinidadian Fictions of Community within the Metanarratives of 'Faith': Lakshmi Persaud's Butterfl y in the Wind and Sharlow Mohammed's The Elect -- PART IV: ASIA-PACIFIC -- 7. 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 -- 8. From the Ganges to the South Seas: Fiji as 'Fatal Paradise' in Satendra Nandan's The Wounded Sea -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458701803321 |
Pirbhai Mariam <1970->
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| Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / / Mariam Pirbhai
| Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / / Mariam Pirbhai |
| Autore | Pirbhai Mariam <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.914093553 |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth fiction (English) - South Asian authors - History and criticism
South Asian diaspora in literature South Asians in literature |
| ISBN | 1-4426-9780-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791554203321 |
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Pirbhai Mariam <1970->
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| Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / / Mariam Pirbhai
| Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / / Mariam Pirbhai |
| Autore | Pirbhai Mariam <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823/.914093553 |
| Soggetto topico |
Commonwealth fiction (English) - South Asian authors - History and criticism
South Asian diaspora in literature South Asians in literature |
| ISBN | 1-4426-9780-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819309503321 |
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Pirbhai Mariam <1970->
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| Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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