Overview
- Represents the first comprehensive examination of the literature of Asian indenture in the Caribbean
- Considers the historic invisibility of indentured women
- Focuses on literature by both the colonizer and the colonized, creating a more complete understanding of the impact of imperialism
Part of the book series: New Caribbean Studies (NCARS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is the first comprehensive study of Anglophone literature depicting the British Imperial system of indentured labor in the Caribbean. Through an examination of intimate relationships within indenture narratives, this text traces the seductive hierarchies of empire – the oppressive ideologies of gender, ethnicity, and class that developed under imperialism and indenture and that continue to impact the Caribbean today. It demonstrates that British colonizers, Indian and Chinese laborers, and formerly enslaved Africans negotiated struggles for political and economic power through the performance of masculinity and the control of migrant women, and that even those authors who critique empire often reinforce patriarchy as they do so. Further, it identifies a common thread within the work of those authors who resist the hierarchies of empire: a poetics of kinship, or, a focus on the importance of building familial ties across generations and across classifications of people.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alison Klein is a Lecturer in International Writing at Duke University, USA. Her work has been published in the anthology Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments, and the journals Anthurium, South Asian Review, and The Journal of Commonwealth Literatures.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture
Book Subtitle: The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire
Authors: Alison Klein
Series Title: New Caribbean Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99055-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99054-5Published: 10 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07561-3Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99055-2Published: 27 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2691-3011
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Contemporary Literature, Asian Literature