Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur.
Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur.
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Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Call Numbers
G 2014/4952
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxi, 274 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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.
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Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
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Illinois
Date Published
[2014]
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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 embar...
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Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur.
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"Published by arrangement with C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) London"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
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G 2014/4952
Record Identifier
74VKKexdm8ZM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKexdm8ZM
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ISBN
9780226211381
9780226034423 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226034429 (cloth : alkaline paper)
022621138X
DDC
331.4117
MMS ID
991022022879702626
