Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture: The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire

ISBN-13: 9783319990545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 258 str.

Alison Klein

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Ties That Bind

2. To Have and to Hold: The Role of Marriage in Nonfiction Indenture Narratives

3.Tying the Knot: Early Depictions of Indenture

4.Tangled Up: Gendered Metaphors of Nation in Contemporary Indo-Caribbean Narratives

5.  Family Ties: Embodiment of Female Laborers in the Poetry of Indenture

6. At the End of their Tether: Women Writing about Indenture

7. Conclusion: Loose Threads

O autorze

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.