Alison Klein

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Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture: The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire (2018)Hardcover - 2018, 10 October 2018

Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture: The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire (2018)
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Part of Series
New Caribbean Studies
Print Length
258 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
10 Oct 2018
ISBN-10
3319990543
ISBN-13
9783319990545

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.

Product Details

Author:
Alison Klein
Book Edition:
2018
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
10 October 2018
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.6 cm
ISBN-10:
3319990543
ISBN-13:
9783319990545
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
258
Weight:
471.74 gm

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