Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India's Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367760885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 228 str.

Ashutosh Bharadwaj; Judith Misrahi Barak

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This volume discusses the legacies of indenture in the Caribbean, Reunion, Mauritius, and Fiji, and how they still imbue our present. More importantly, it draws attention to India and raises new questions: doesn’t one need, at some stage, to wonder why this forgotten chapter of Indian history needs to be retrieved.

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Introduction: Kala Pani Crossings: India in Conversation PART I: Shifting the Gaze 1. Theorizing the Troubled Black Waters 2. Moving Beyond the Memory Question: Narratives of South Asian Indenture, Global Memory Capitalism and Its Discontents 3. Connected Literatures and Histories across Kala pani: Perspectives from India 4. Escaped or Tricked? Why Indian Women Crossed 5. The ‘Terror’ of Kala pani: A Colonial Myth? PART II: Across the Oceans 6. Caste Travelling across the Kala Pani: the Case of the Unborn V. S. Naipaul 7. The Cult of Draupadi and its Propagation through Indentured Labour in Reunion Island 8. ‘I Will Survive on A Seer of Saag the Full Year’: Uncovering Women’s Work, Belonging and ‘Kala Pani’ in ‘Bidesia’ Songs 9. A Passage to Mauritius: The Ebb and Flow of Kala Pani in Hindustani Cinema PART III: Re-imagining the Kala Pani Narrative 10. Coolie Life-Writing and its Shifting Locations - Narrativizing Kala Pani within the Nation and in the Diaspora 11. Pioneers across Kala Pani: Reading Girmitiyas in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge, Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman and Totaram Sanadya's Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands 12. Exilic Trajectories of Crossing the Kala Pani: Locating Female Subjectivity in the Writings of Ramabai Espinet and Gaiutra Bahadur 13. Retrieving the History of Coolie Women: Historiography, Research and the Role of Agencies in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge and Peggy Mohan’s Jahajin 14. The Politics of Representation and the Interface of Sycorax and the Snake Woman: A Study of Olive Senior’s Arrival of the Snake-Woman