Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
ISBN-13:
9780226211381
ISBN-10:
022621138X
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Gaiutra Bahadur
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
312 pages
Category:
Women
,
Specific Groups
,
Labor & Industrial Relations
,
Economics
,
United States History
,
India
,
Asian History
,
Women in History
,
World History
,
Gandhi
,
Hinduism
,
Emigration & Immigration
,
Social Sciences
,
Women's Studies
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ISBN-13:
9780226211381
ISBN-10:
022621138X
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Gaiutra Bahadur
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
312 pages
Category:
Women
,
Specific Groups
,
Labor & Industrial Relations
,
Economics
,
United States History
,
India
,
Asian History
,
Women in History
,
World History
,
Gandhi
,
Hinduism
,
Emigration & Immigration
,
Social Sciences
,
Women's Studies
Summary
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (ISBN-13: 9780226211381 and ISBN-10: 022621138X), written by authors
Gaiutra Bahadur, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2014.
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Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a "coolie"―the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. In Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother's story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives.
Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were either runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many of them left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages―traumatic "middle passages"―only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions and sexual exploitation. Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora―from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next―that is at once a search for one's roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.
Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were either runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many of them left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages―traumatic "middle passages"―only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions and sexual exploitation. Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora―from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next―that is at once a search for one's roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.
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