Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture: The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire

ISBN-13: 9783030075613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str.

Alison Klein

Opis

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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.