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Anglophone literature of Caribbean indenture = the seductive hierarchies of empire /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Anglophone literature of Caribbean indenture/ by Alison Klein.
Reminder of title:	the seductive hierarchies of empire /
Author:	Klein, Alison.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	vii, 258 p. :ill., digital ; : 23 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Indentured servants in literature. -
Subject:	Caribbean Area - In literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99055-2
ISBN:	9783319990552

Anglophone literature of Caribbean indenture = the seductive hierarchies of empire /
Klein, Alison.

Anglophone literature of Caribbean indenturethe seductive hierarchies of empire /[electronic resource] :by Alison Klein. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - vii, 258 p. :ill., digital ;23 cm. - New caribbean studies. - New caribbean studies..

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.

This book is the first comprehensive study of Anglophone literature depicting the British Imperial system of indentured labor in the Caribbean. 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. It demonstrates that British colonizers, Indian and Chinese laborers, and formerly enslaved Africans negotiated struggles for political and economic power through the performance of masculinity and the control of migrant women, and that even those authors who critique empire often reinforce patriarchy as they do so. Further, it identifies a common thread within the work of those authors who resist the hierarchies of empire: a poetics of kinship, or, a focus on the importance of building familial ties across generations and across classifications of people.

ISBN: 9783319990552

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-99055-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1209554
Indentured servants in literature.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

831313
Caribbean Area
--In literature.

LC Class. No.: PR151.S45 / K54 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9355

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