Download or read book Chalo Chinidad written by Jang Bhagirathee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chalo Chinidad is the true tale of Mohan, the protagonist, who left his motherland during the British oppression to go to a faraway land. Chinidad, as it was referred to during those days. The story is a complete documented presentation of the life of the Jahajis, fictional in projection, but true as a story. This book is for young adults and mature audiences.
Download or read book Mythologies of Migration Vocabularies of Indenture written by Mariam Pirbhai and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji.
Download or read book From Indians in Trinidad to Indo Trinidadians written by N. Jayaram and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians. It combines social history with first-hand fieldwork data to portray human ingenuity in terms of social reconstitution and community building in a hostile socio-cultural environment. Furthermore, it addresses key social institutions—religion, caste, and family—and cultural elements—language, foodways, and ethnicity. Its analytical framework is guided by the concept of metamorphosis; it steers clear of the persistence versus change hypotheses. Given its focus, it will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, history, and migration and diaspora studies.
Download or read book Chalo Jahaji written by Brij V. Lal and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad
Download or read book Kisses in the Nederends written by Epeli Hau‘ofa and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the best Rabelaisian tradition, this brilliant satire weaves a tale of improbabilities around the seat of the last great taboo. Oilei Bomboki wakes one morning with an excruciating pain that sends him anxiously searching for a cure. Unsuccessful treatments at the hands of various healers and doctors, culminating in a bizarre operation, lead the desperate Oilei to seek the help of Babu Vivekanand--sage, yogi, and conman. Through Babu's teachings, Oilei learns to love and respect the source of his own complaint. By turns savage and absurdly comic, this brilliant satire allows Hau'ofa to comment on aspects of life in a small Pacific community perched precariously between traditional and modern ways.
Download or read book A Remarkable Rotuman Woman written by Jacinta Tonga and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petera Veu was born out of wedlock and into a time when girls lived lives of quiet, domestic servitude. But Petera Veu had other ideas. Like the Fijian island of Rotuma in which she was raised, Petera didn't quite fit in with her surroundings. She picked fights, stole food, rebuked priests and generally spoke her mind whenever possible. Determined, independent and, at times, downright intractable, Petera Veu lived life on her own terms. A Remarkable Rotuman Woman is Jacinta Tonga's memoir of her late grandmother, the indomitable Petera Veu, and speaks of traditional life in the South Pacific, the peculiarities of Rotuman culture and of her grandmother's spirit that still lives on today.
Download or read book Girmitiyas written by Brij V. Lal and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an imaginative and valuable contribution to the literature on Indian immigration. The many new insights it provides are of such importance that one hopes it will serve as a model for work on other indentured colonial populations. It is a "ground breaking work", a basic contribution to the scholarly literature on Indians in Fiji, especially because its wealth of statistical information on the origins of the immigrants and its coverage of the formal structure of the system which brought them to Fiji"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Buxton Spice written by Oonya Kempadoo and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print: an extraordinary first novel by'a writer to watch and to enjoy.'* Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana-a world at a cultural and political crossroads-and perfectly captures a child's keen observations, sense of wonder, and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience.
Download or read book He Drown She in the Sea written by Shani Mootoo and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2006-06-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A classic Romeo and Juliet love story” spanning decades from the World War II Caribbean to modern-day Vancouver (The Washington Post Book World). At the dawn of the Second World War on the island of Guanagaspar, Harry, the son of a widowed maid, and Rose, the daughter of his mother’s well-to-do employer, are inseparable as children. Blissfully unaware, they form a connection that knows nothing of race or class hierarchies defining their society. Then one night, after American troops occupy Guanagaspar, their deep friendship is exposed and severed. When Harry and Rose meet again in Canada years later, the gulf separating them is not so apparent. As a passion long repressed is rekindled, Rose takes it upon herself to reroute their destinies. A “transcendent tale of souls wounded by circumstance and rehabilitated by love” (Booklist, starred review), He Drown She in the Sea is a lyrical, sensuous, and suspenseful story about the origins of desire and the sacrifice and euphoria that come with defying the life one is born into. With a “narrative pacing verg[ing] on genius . . . The worlds revealed are lush and brilliant. The journey is delightful” (Edmonton Journal).
Download or read book Jahajin written by Peggy Mohan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Calcutta to Trinidad they went, the girmitiyas, crossing two oceans to reach their new homes on the other side of the world. jahajin illuminates for us the extraordinary experience of that jouney, the train ride from faizabad to calcutta, the passage down the hooghly. the three-month voyage around the stormy cape and up the Atlantic to Trinnidad, where the weary migrants settled into life as indentured labourers on the sugar estates. The novel opens with the narrator, a young linguist, talking to 110-year-old Deeda, who came to the caribbean on the same ship as her great great grandmother. Deeda speaks of leaving her village in basti with her son and sailing across the seas to "Chini-dad", the land of sugar, and about the life and friendships she built on her estate.Nested within this larger story is the dreamlike myth of Saranga, torn between her monkey-lover and her prince. Deeda's stories of a lost world captivate the younger woman, encouraging her to make the journey back across the kala pani. Alive with compelling characters and the lilt of Trinidad Bhojpuri, Jahajin gathers up the various narratives of relocation and transformation across a century in a tale that is part history and part fairy tale.
Download or read book The Swinging Bridge written by Ramabai Espinet and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mona, a film researcher rooted in Montreal, vividly remembers that night in Trinidad when her father, Da-Da, in a drunken rage, threatened to kill her nine-year-old brother, Kello. Years later, a terminally ill Kello asks Mona to revisit their native island and reclaim the property that their family had left behind. As Mona returns to the Caribbean to confront her family's turbulent past, the reader travels back in time—to nineteenth-century India, to British Trinidad, where her ancestors lived as indentured workers in the cane fields, and finally to urban North America. Steeped in the lyrical rhythms of Caribbean life, this exquisite, richly layered novel explores the immigrant experience with compassion and humour. It is a moving story of race and displacement, of love and betrayal, of endings and beginnings—a swinging bridge of the universal search for self. Praise forThe Swinging Bridge "Beautiful, luminous and an utter pleasure to read. A writer as necessary as Ramabai Espinet should be treasured by us for her unique voice and the unique world she shares with us."—Jamaica Kincaid "The Swinging Bridge is a sweeping story . . . of rich heritage—a blend of Indian and Caribbean sounds, scents and celebrations."—NOW Magazine "An extraordinary achievement in the exercise of remembering. . . . Highly charged with moral intent."—George Lamming
Download or read book All Decent Animals written by Oonya Kempadoo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kempadoo's moving third novel looks at the personal and aesthetic choices of her multifaceted characters on the island of Trinidad--a country still economically developing but culturally rich, aiming at "world class" status amid its poor island cousins.
Download or read book The Counting House written by David Dabydeen and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the middle of last century, at the height of the Empire this book follows the lives of Rohini and Vidia, growing up and getting married in a small Indian village, before being seduced by tales of the promised land and the riches they will find there.
Download or read book India in the Caribbean written by David Dabydeen and published by Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting written by Shivanee Ramlochan and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramlochan's poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heavily symbolic. Her poems reference the language and structural patterns of the genres of fantasy or speculative fiction, though with her own distinctive features, including the presence of such folkloric Trinidadian figures as the Duenne, those wandering lost spirits whose feet point backwards.
Download or read book Daughters of Empire written by Lakshmi Persaud and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping saga of migration and the challenges it presents one family, this is a story about sisters Ishani, who stays in Trinidad with the family business, and Amira, who migrates with her family to England. Ishani, the older sister full of bluff certainty, is a good-hearted manipulator determined to extend her influence across the seas. Soul-searching Amira, on the other hand, wonders how she will raise three daughters outside the support of her extended family, and whether the values of her traditional Hindu upbringing can provide her children with the means to negotiate the seductions of aggressive British individualism. As a middle-class family able to live in prosperous Mill-Hill, the Vidhurs face little of the hostility experienced by other Caribbean and South Asian migrants, but they too discover that even those with the very best colonial educations may never quite fit in, especially with those who see only color. An examination of education, class, and race, this novel provide a unique look at Caribbean Diaspora.
Download or read book Raise the Lanterns High written by Lakshmi Persaud and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues of Love, loyalty, and female solidarity form the flame at the heart of this exciting and colourful novel. This book is being used in post-colonial literature courses in US, UK, Indian and Caribbean Universities. ''I found it totally gripping throughout...I was particularly impressed-and moved-by the way the novel effortlessly glided between the worlds of the 1960s and the history of suttee queens 200 years before..the material was absolutely riveting' Angela Thirwell, author, London. 'Hynoptic and lyrical, this mesmerising tale brings to mind Amy Tan at her best' Memsahib Magazine
