Girmitiya Culture and Memory Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience across Continents /
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| Summary: | XXVII, 326 p. 23 illus., 17 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59615-5 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Theorizing Girmitiya Culture and (Post)memory
- PART I-Retrieving Historical Narratives
- 2. Beyond Indenture: An Examination of the Life Stories, Social & Economic Mobility of Mohun and Teeluckdharry
- 3. The Indenture Experiment in Mauritius: A Comparison between the Administration of British and French Plantations
- 4. Mapping Locations in indenture Ship Lists to Current Locations in India
- 5. Struggles of Indian Indentured Women During the Indenture System in Fiji
- PART II Commemorating (Post)memory
- 6. Commemorating the Coolitude in the Caribbean Region
- 7. The Politics of Displacement and Shipboard Fatality: Analysing the Mental Health of Indentured Laborers
- 8. The Relationship and Impact of Bollywood on Indian Diaspora
- 9. Memory beyond Black Waters: Mapping History, Language and Culture in Kalapani Poetics from the Perspective of Female Indentureship
- PART III- The Context of Culture and Identity
- 10. Homemaking in Girmitiya Diaspora
- 11. Preserving Roots Abroad: The Girmitiyas’ Role in Indian Soft Power
- 12. Ganga Talao and Girmitya: Folklore and Oral Traditions
- 13. A Virtual Museum Experience in Fiji
- 14. Indo-Fijian Rāmlīlā as a Cultural Ethos among Girmitiyas
- PART IV-(Re)mapping Girmitiya Literature
- 15. The Tell-tale Poetry of the Woman Girmitiya: Analysing Torabully’s Coupeuses D’Azur
- 16. Fiji’s Subaltern Women’s Cry: Social and Psychological Repercussions of Migration
- 17. Struggle and Sufferings of Girmitiya: A Study of Writings of Indo-Fijians Writers.