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01998aam a2200373 a 4500 001 0FFFB9546A8B11E689525693DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160825010506 008 091029s2009 onc b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009279331 020 $a 0802099645 (acid-free paper) 020 $a 9780802099648 (acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)318231001 040 $a NLC $c NLC $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d C#P $d CDX $d BWX $d BTN $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a b------ 050 00 $a PR9084 P57 2009 100 1 $a Pirbhai, Mariam, $d 1970- 245 10 $a Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : $b novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / $c Mariam Pirbhai. 260 $a Toronto ; $b University of Toronto Press, $c c2009. 300 $a viii, 262 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index. 520 1 $a "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. 650 0 $a Commonwealth fiction (English) $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a South Asian diaspora in literature. 650 0 $a South Asians in literature 650 0 $a Emigration and immigration in literature 650 0 $a Colonies in literature 651 0 $a Great Britain $x In literature. $x In literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180109045131.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825044616.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0FFFB9546A8B11E689525693DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search