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By : Gaiutra Bahadur
Book Synopsis :
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.?In?Coolie Woman?shortlisted for the 2014 Orwell Prize?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 .
Book Detail :
Tittle : Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Author : Gaiutra Bahadur
Pages : 312 pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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ISBN-10 : 022621138X
ISBN-13 : 9780226211381
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