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100 1  Bahadur, Gaiutra,|d1975-|eauthor. 
245 10 Coolie woman :|bthe odyssey of indenture /|cGaiutra 
       Bahadur. 
264  1 Chicago :|bUniversity of Chicago Press,|c[2014] 
264  4 |c©2014 
300    xxi, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages :|billustrations, map 
       ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "Published by arrangement with C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers)
       London"--Title page verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tThe magician's box --|tAncestral memory --|tThe women's 
       quarters --|tInto dark waters --|tHer middle passage --|tA
       new world --|tBeautiful woman without a nose --|tGone but 
       not forgotten --|tThe dream of return --|tEvery ancestor -
       -|tSurviving history. 
520 8  "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. 
648  7 1900-1999|2fast 
650  0 Indentured servants|zGuyana|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Enslaved women|zGuyana|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Women, East Indian|zGuyana|xSocial conditions|y20th 
       century. 
650  7 East Indian American women|xSocial conditions|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01736030 
650  7 Indentured servants|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00968872 
650  7 Enslaved women|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01178532 
651  7 Guyana|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01208722 
655  7 History|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
775 08 |iAlso issued as:|aBahadur, Gaiutra, 1975-|tCoolie woman.
       |dLondon : Hurst, 2013|z9781849042772|w(OCoLC)825559735 
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