04365nam a2200553 i 4500999001700000001000600017003000900023005001700032008004100049010001700090020004300107020004000150020002700190020001800217040011000235042000800345043001200353050002500365082001700390099002400407100004300431245006400474250003500538260004600573300004700619500009000666504006700756505024700823520176201070526000802832648002902840650006302869650005602932650007202988650002903060650004603089650006403135650003803199650003003237650004003267650005903307650003103366651002503397655002603422852004003448942001203488952014803500952016303648  c39060d3906033192BD-DhAAL20211121144449.0180607t2015    ii a     b    001 0 eng c  a  2013008860  a9780226034423 (cloth : alkaline paper)  a0226034429 (cloth : alkaline paper)  a9780226043388 (e-book)  a9789350099902  aICU/DLCbengerdacCGUdDLCdBTCTAdOCLCOdYDXCPdVVSdUOKdNBUdCDXdRIDdOCLCFdVP@dITDdBDXdBD-DhAAL  apcc  as-gy---00aHD4875.G95bB34 201400a331.4117223  aHD4875.G95 B34 20141 aBahadur, Gaiutrad1975-eauthor92619210aCoolie woman :bthe odyssey of indenture /cGaiutra Bahadur  aThis edition published in 2015  aIndia :bHachette book publishing,cc2013  axxii, 349 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm.  a"Published by arrangement with C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) London"--Title page verso.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 327-338) and index.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.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.  aENH 7a1900 - 19992fast942912 0aIndentured servantszGuyanaxHistoryy20th century.926194 0aWomen slaveszGuyanaxHistoryy20th century.926195 0aWomen, East IndianzGuyanaxSocial conditionsy20th century.926196 0aEnglish language.942913 7aBrahmansxSocial conditions.2fast926197 7aEast Indian American womenxSocial conditions.2fast926198 7aIndentured servants.2fast926199 7aSlave labor.2fast926200 7aWomen foreign workers.2fast926201 7aWomen foreign workersxSocial conditions.2fast926202 7aWomen slaves.2fast926203 7aGuyana.2fast926204 7aHistory.2fast942914  aAyesha Abed LibrarycGeneral Stacks  2ddccBK  00102ddc4070aBRACULbBRACULcGENd2018-06-05eSTS Internationalg798.00l0o331.4117 BAHp3010033192r2018-06-05t1v798.00w2018-06-05yBK  00102ddc4070aBRACULbBRACULcGENd2018-06-05eSTS Internationalg798.00l2m2o331.4117 BAHp3010033193r2024-05-30s2024-04-25t2v798.00w2018-06-05yBK