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Author:

Pirbhai, Mariam, 1970-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 262 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
South Asian diaspora in literature.
South Asians in literature
Emigration and immigration in literature
Colonies in literature
Great Britain--In literature.--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.

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."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0802099645 (acid-free paper)
9780802099648 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)318231001

LCCN:

2009279331

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)