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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975- author.     Subjects     Indentured servants -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.     Enslaved women -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.     Women, East Indian -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.     Slave labor -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.     Women foreign workers -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.     Women foreign workers -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.     Brahmans -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975- author.       by title:      Coolie woman : the o...         MARC Display

Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur. by Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975- author. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014. Subjects Indentured servants -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.   Enslaved women -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.   Women, East Indian -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.   Slave labor -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.   Women foreign workers -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century.   Women foreign workers -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.   Brahmans -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780226034423 (cloth : alkaline paper) : 0226034429 (cloth : alkaline paper) Description:  xxi, 274 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. 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. Requests:  0 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 embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother's story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were either runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many of them left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages--traumatic 'middle passages'--only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women's lives, Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora--from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next--that is at once a search for one's roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity"--Publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 331.41173 Ba Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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