TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pirbhai,Mariam
TI  - Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture: novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific 
SN  - 9781442697805
AV  - PR9080 .M984 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - South Asian authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Servants in literature
KW  - South Asian diaspora in literature
KW  - South Asians in literature
KW  - Indentured servants
KW  - South Asia
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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