Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indiana Labour Diaspora (Anthem South Asian Studies (Paperback))
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Book Description
"Coolitude" is both an intellectual interpretation, and a poetic and artistic immersion into the world of the vanished coolie. This collection of previously unpublished texts, poems and sketches capture the essence of the Indian plantation experience and deconstruct traditional depictions of the status of the coolie in the British Empire.
The concept of coolitude encompasses the experiences of the first generation workers together with those of their descendants spread across the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Ocean islands today. Indeed the symbolic value of the word lies in the scope it gives us for considering both the specificities of the coolie experience and its use as a comparative tool.
The book embraces coolitude in its various incarnations: the shared experience of the voyaging migrants, the walk from village to port town and the weeks spent on the ship. All those Indians, irrespective of whether they went to Fiji, South Africa, the West Indies or the Indian Ocean islands, underwent an exile from homeland. "Coolitude" emphasizes their shared history.
About the Author
Marina Carter completed her DPhil in history at Oxford University and subsequently held a research fellowship at Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London, followed by a Research Fellowship funded by the American McArthur Foundation. She has worked and studied for many years in Mauritius, where she has founded a pioneering NGO called the Centre for Research on Indian Ocean Societies (CRIOS). Widely published, she was recently appointed an honorary research fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh Khal Torabully the descendant of a Lascar community who left India two hundred years ago, lives and works in France where he is not only a doctor of linguistics, but an acclaimed poet and filmmaker. He has numerous publications and awards to his credit, including the Prix Missives 1998 for his L'ombre rouge des gazelles, and the prize for best filmmaker at the Zanzibar International Film Festival of 1998.
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Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indiana Labour Diaspora (Anthem South Asian Studies (Paperback))
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