Disciplining Coolies: An Archival Footprint of Trinidad, 1846

ISBN-13: 9781433156168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 282 str.

Amar Wahab

Opis

This book foregrounds one of the earliest cases (1846) of occupational and physical cruelty against East Indian indentured laborers in Trinidad within this very early period of experimentation.

Spis treści

List of Figures - Acknowledgments - Preface - Cast of Characters - Introduction: The Footprint - Disciplinary Orientalism and Indian Indentureship in the Colonial Caribbean - 'Coolie' Genealogy as Colonial Governmentality: An Analysis of 'Mr. Walkinshaw's Ill-treatment of Coolies' - The Transcripts: Trinidad 1846, Volume 4, Mr. Walkinshaw's Ill-treatment of Coolies, Governor Lord Harris, Disp. 75 and 88 - Postscript: 'Coolie' Hauntings - Index.

O autorze

Amar Wahab is Associate Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at York University, Canada. He received his PhD in sociology and equity studies from the University of Toronto. Among his publications is the monograph, Colonial Inventions: Landscape, Power and Representation in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad (2010).