Indentured identities : resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji / Farzana Gounder
- Bib ID:
- 5974048
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gounder, Farzana
- Description:
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- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011
- xii, 345 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789027226556
- 9027226555
- 9789027282163
- 9027282161
- Series:
- Studies in narrative ; v. 15.
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Getting acquainted with the Girmityas
- 1.1.The Girmit narrators
- 1.2.The language of the life narratives
- 1.3.Researching Girmit with the Girmityas
- 1.4.The research
- 1.5.The co-construction of Girmit
- ch. 2 Gabriel Aiyappa's Girmit
- 2.1.Fiji's call for Girmityas
- 2.2.Girmit across the kala pani
- 2.3.Social structure and its problems on the Girmit plantations
- 2.4.And after
- 2.5.Summary and discussion
- ch. 3 Behind the scenes of Girmit Gatha
- 3.1.Girmit Gatha
- 3.2.Interviewees
- 3.3.Interviewers
- 3.4.The interview
- 3.5.Strengths of Girmit Gatha as data
- 3.6.Limitations of the Girmit Gatha life narratives
- 3.7.Summary and discussion
- ch. 4 Transposing the oral into written
- 4.1.The process as a whole
- 4.2.Transcribing
- 4.3.Transcriptional symbols
- 4.4.Transliterating
- 4.5.Translating
- 4.6.Summary and discussion
- ch. 5 Ram Rattan Mishar's life narrative construction
- Contents note continued: 5.1.Differentiating components by focus
- 5.2.Differentiating components by structure
- 5.3.Causal chain
- 5.4.Ram Rattan Mishar's well-formed narrative
- 5.5.Ghori and Guldhari's habitual narratives
- 5.6.Sequencing of incidents in the life narrative
- 5.7.Summary and discussion
- ch. 6 Ram Rattan Mishar's identity and agency reconstructions
- 6.1.Positioning analysis
- 6.2.Levels of positioning analysis
- 6.3.Merging Labov with Bamberg
- 6.4.Summary and discussion
- Restorying Girmit
- ch. 7 Guldhari Maharaj
- 7.1.Descriptive abstract: How it was
- 7.2.Structure
- 7.3.Descriptive complicating action Part 1: In the lines
- 7.4.Descriptive complicating action Part 2: On the plantation
- 7.5.Descriptive resolution: Pay day
- 7.6.Descriptive Coda: But they survived
- 7.7.Summary and discussion
- ch. 8 Ram Sundar Maharaj
- 8.1.Structure
- 8.2.Abstract of life narrative
- 8.3.Event narrative: The reason we came to Fiji
- Contents note continued: 8.4.Orientation 1: We served Girmit for five years
- 8.5.Habitual narrative 1: The work we had to do
- 8.6.Orientation 2: Where is Bachkanya?
- 8.7.Habitual narrative 2: There was a sense of community
- 8.8.Summary and discussion
- ch. 9 Jasoda Ramdin
- 9.1.Structure
- 9.2.Event Narrative 1: The first day
- 9.3.Event Narrative 2: I was hit
- 9.4.Event Narrative 3: She was beaten
- 9.5.Habitual narrative: The consequences of a failed resistance
- 9.6.Coda
- 9.7.Summary and discussion
- ch. 10 Ram Dulhari
- 10.1.Structure
- 10.2.Event narrative 1: How I became a Girmitya
- 10.3.Event narrative 2: My first day of Girmit
- 10.4.Habitual narrative 1: Routine of the plantation
- 10.4.1.Routine of the plantation: Part 1
- 10.4.2.Rations: Embedded habitual narrative
- 10.4.3.Routine of the plantation: Part 2
- 10.5.Habitual narrative 2: Why Girmit ended
- 10.6.Habitual narrative 3: The big sickness
- 10.7.Summary and discussion
- Contents note continued: ch. 11 Ghori Gosai Part 1
- 11.1.Structure
- 11.2.Event narrative 2: No ordinary Girmitya
- 11.3.Event narrative 3: I recruited myself
- 11.4.Event narrative 4: The train journey
- 11.5.Event narrative 5: I bathed in the Ganges
- 11.6.Event narrative 6: I am Gowali
- 11.7.Event narrative 7: Why I couldn't leave right away
- 11.8.Event narrative 8: On board Sangola I
- 11.9.Event narrative 9: The hurricane
- 11.10.Event narrative 10: I could have been killed
- 11.11.Event narrative 11: How I tricked the White men
- 11.12.Event narrative 12: My role in the dispatching of Girmityas
- 11.13.Event narrative 13: At the Lautoka hospital
- 11.14.Event narrative 14: The journey to the plantation
- 11.15.Event narrative 15: The plantation
- 11.16.Event narrative 16: The first drama
- 11.17.Event narrative 17: My message to the Girmityas
- 11.18.Summary and discussion
- ch. 12 Ghori Gosai Part 2
- 12.1.Structure
- Contents note continued: 12.2.Event narrative 1: He didn't obey me
- 12.3.Event narrative 2: How I became the sirdar
- 12.4.Summary and discussion
- ch. 13 Constructing `I' through the life narrative
- 13.1.Findings from study
- 13.2.Structure and Focus of the Girmit life narrative
- 13.3.Manner of Girmit narrations
- 13.4.Negotiation of Identities and Agencies in Girmit life narratives
- 13.5.Memory, Cultural Ideologies, and Master Narratives' influences on the Girmit life narrative
- 13.6.Summary and discussion
- ch. 14 Conclusions and beginnings
- 14.1.Research overview
- 14.2.Research findings
- 14.3.Research limitations
- 14.4.Further research.
- Notes:
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- Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massey University, Palmerston North, 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-340) and index.
- In English with some Fiji Hindi
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