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Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indentured servants--Guyana--History--20th century.
- Indentured servants.
- Enslaved women--Guyana--History--20th century.
- Enslaved women.
- Women, East Indian--Guyana--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women, East Indian.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Guyana.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, map
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a "coolie"-the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother's story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The magician's box
- Ancestral memory
- The women's quarters
- Into dark waters
- Her middle passage
- A new world
- Beautiful woman without a nose
- Gone but not forgotten
- The dream of return
- Every ancestor
- Surviving history.
- Notes:
- "Published by arrangement with C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) London"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Edition:
- Also issued as: 9781849042772 Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975- London : Hurst, 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226043388
- 022604338X
- Publisher Number:
- 99984407988
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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