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Author:

Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975- author

Title:

Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxi, 274 pages ; illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Indentured servants--Guyana--History--20th century
Women slaves--Guyana--History--20th century
Women, East Indian--Guyana--Social conditions--20th century

Notes:

"Published by arrangement with C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) London"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references

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

Summary:

"Gaiutra Bahadur's pathbreaking book carefully excavates an imperial history of violence and uprooting ...With the exhilarating meticulousness of a period film, Coolie Woman recreates a vanished world and casts a personal searchlight on the aga of indenture." --From the back cover

ISBN:

0226034429 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226034423 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)834408896

LCCN:

2013008860

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)