Pirbhai, Mariam,  1970- <br/><br/>
Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture  novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific / 
Mariam Pirbhai. 
 - Toronto [Ont. :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec :  Canadian Electronic Library,  (c)2010). 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>part 1: The South Asian Diaspora. Multiple voices of indenture history: an introduction ; New approaches to an old Diaspora: theorizing texts and contexts --  part 2: Africa. The indenture narrative of Mauritius: Deepchand Beeharry's That others might live ; "Passenger Indians" and disposed citizens in Uganda and South Africa: Peter Nazareth's In a brown mantle and Farida Karodia's Daughters of the twilight --  pt. 3: The Caribbean. New configurations of identity for the Indo-Guyanese "this time generation": Rooplall Monar's Janjhat and Narmala Shewcharan's Tomorrow is another day ; Indo-Trinidadian fictions of community within the metanarratives of "faith": Lakshmi Persaud's Butterfly in the wind and Sharlow Mohammed's The elect --  part 4: Asia-Pacific. The politics of (the English) language in Malaysia and Singapore: K.S. Maniam's The return and Gopal Baratham's A candle or the sun ; From the Ganges to South Seas: Fiji as "fatal paradise" in Satendra Nandan's The wounded sea. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442697805 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English fiction--South Asian authors--History and criticism.<br/>English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Servants in literature.<br/>South Asian diaspora in literature.<br/>South Asians in literature.<br/>Indentured servants--History.--South Asia
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR9080  / .M984 2009