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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 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.  Ideadiez.com is and in to a was not you i of it the be he his but for are this that by on at they with which she or from had we will have an what been one if would who has her ... Oxbridge essays scampi shrimp recipe nobu-zzvc Oxbridge essays scampi shrimp recipe nobu-zzvc Samedi 14 mar 2015 Coolie - Wikipedia Coolie (alternatively spelled cooli cooly quli koelie and other such variations) during the 19th and early 20th century was a term for an indentured servant ... Google Fordt A Google ingyenes szolgltatsa azonnal lefordtja a szavakat kifejezseket s weboldalakat a magyar s 100 tovbbi nyelv kombincijban. JSTOR: Viewing Subject: History Amount of access 305 Journals in JSTOR Date Range Aboriginal History Coolie Woman: A Great-Grandmother's Perilous Voyage - The ... In Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture author Gaiutra Bahadur traces the journey of her great-grandmother from India to the West Indies as an ... Naomi Symes - Women's History and Social History Books Naomi Symes Books. Secure Bookselling Service. Established 1994. Out-of-print antiquarian and in-print books in the field of women's history and social history. - ; : 2009 : $3.850 : $4358 : ... Demographics of Fiji - Wikipedia Demographics of Fiji; Population: 869458 (2015 est.) Density: 49.4/km 2: Birth rate: 19.8 (2014 est.) Death rate: 6.0 (2014 est.) Life expectancy: 72.1 (2014 est.)
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