Anglophone literature of Caribbean indenture : the seductive hierarchies of empire / Alison Klein.
2018
PR151.S45
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Title
Anglophone literature of Caribbean indenture : the seductive hierarchies of empire / Alison Klein.
Author
Klein, Alison, author.
ISBN
9783319990552 (electronic book)
3319990551 (electronic book)
9783319990545
3319990543
3319990551 (electronic book)
9783319990545
3319990543
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
PR151.S45
Dewey Decimal Classification
820/.9355
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 2, 2018).
Series
New Caribbean studies.
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Anglophone literature of Caribbean indenture.
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