Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture : novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific /

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Author / Creator:Pirbhai, Mariam, 1970- author.
Imprint:Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)
Description:1 online resource (viii, 262 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11246997
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ISBN:9781442697805
1442697806
9780802099648
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index.
Summary:Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji.
Other form:Print version: 9780802099648

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