@article{938100,
      recid = {938100},
      author = {Klein, Alison,},
      title = {Anglophone literature of Caribbean indenture : the  seductive hierarchies of empire /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/938100},
}