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100	1		_aBahadur, Gaiutra _d1975- _eauthor _926192
245	1	0	_aCoolie woman : _bthe odyssey of indenture / _cGaiutra Bahadur
250			_aThis edition published in 2015
260			_aIndia : _bHachette book publishing, _cc2013
300			_axxii, 349 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
500			_a"Published by arrangement with C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) London"--Title page verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 327-338) and index.
505	0		_aThe magician's box -- Ancestral memory -- The women's quarters -- Into dark waters -- Her middle passage -- A new world -- Beautiful woman without a nose -- Gone but not forgotten -- The dream of return -- Every ancestor -- Surviving history.
520	8		_a"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. Now, 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, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women's lives, 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"--Publisher description.
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648		7	_a1900 - 1999 _2fast _942912
650		0	_aIndentured servants _zGuyana _xHistory _y20th century. _926194
650		0	_aWomen slaves _zGuyana _xHistory _y20th century. _926195
650		0	_aWomen, East Indian _zGuyana _xSocial conditions _y20th century. _926196
650		0	_aEnglish language. _942913
650		7	_aBrahmans _xSocial conditions. _2fast _926197
650		7	_aEast Indian American women _xSocial conditions. _2fast _926198
650		7	_aIndentured servants. _2fast _926199
650		7	_aSlave labor. _2fast _926200
650		7	_aWomen foreign workers. _2fast _926201
650		7	_aWomen foreign workers _xSocial conditions. _2fast _926202
650		7	_aWomen slaves. _2fast _926203
651		7	_aGuyana. _2fast _926204
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _942914
852			_aAyesha Abed Library _cGeneral Stacks
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