期刊全称 | Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture | 期刊简称 | The Seductive Hierar | 影响因子2023 | Alison Klein | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Represents the first comprehensive examination of the literature of Asian indenture in the Caribbean.Considers the historic invisibility of indentured women.Focuses on literature by both the colonizer | 学科分类 | New Caribbean Studies | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book is the first comprehensive study of Anglophone literature depicting the British Imperial system of indentured labor in the Caribbean. Through an examination of intimate relationships within indenture narratives, this text traces the seductive hierarchies of empire – the oppressive ideologies of gender, ethnicity, and class that developed under imperialism and indenture and that continue to impact the Caribbean today. It demonstrates that British colonizers, Indian and Chinese laborers, and formerly enslaved Africans negotiated struggles for political and economic power through the performance of masculinity and the control of migrant women, and that even those authors who critique empire often reinforce patriarchy as they do so. Further, it identifies a common thread within the work of those authors who resist the hierarchies of empire: a poetics of kinship, or, a focus on the importance of building familial ties across generations and across classifications of people.. | Pindex | Book 2018 |
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