Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific

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Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific

Title remainder

novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific

Statement of responsibility

Mariam Pirbhai

Creator

• Pirbhai, Mariam, 1970-

Subject

• Englisch
• English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- South Asian authors | History and criticism
• Great Britain -- Colonies | In literature
• Household employees in literature
• Auswanderung
• Roman
• South Asian diaspora in literature
• South Asians in literature
• Südasiaten
• Indentured servants -- South Asia -- History

Language

eng

Summary

"South Asian migration during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was largely made up 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."--Jacket

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

NLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PR9084

LC item number

.P57 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography