Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture: The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Klein, Alison (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030075613 ISBN-13: 9783030075613 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2019 Click for more in this series: New Caribbean Studies |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
Dewey: 800.098 |
Series: New Caribbean Studies |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" L (0.71 lbs) 258 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Latin America |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
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