...Rebecca N. Liu Abstract This article examines the central role that the work contract plays in the production and reproduction of Asian diasporic worlds. In light of the history of Asian indentured contract labor in the Americas, the article proposes that the “Asian American contract” emerges...

..., where it surfaces in a subtle way that melds both human responses and robot subjectivity. Reinforcing the practice of human indenture is the fact that, to be able to apply for work, go to college, or move to another city, a person needs to buy a “franchise,” without which the only option is to enter...

... implicitly positions that continuing pattern of fraud as an explanatory frame through which to understand specific events and choices in Apess’s life. When discussing the fact that his indenture was sold to General William Williams by Judge William Hillhouse (to whom Apess had been transferred...

... in oneoftheleastitlosthimthekingdomThepassageconcludes with a reminder that, like Saul, Winthrop and his auditors have con- tracted as servants of the Lord: ‘‘Thus stands the cause between God and us. We are entered into Covenant with Him for this work 13 To Puritan exegetes, scripture itself was a contract of indenture, and ‘‘this workthe...

... “redemptioners,” usually referred to as indentured servants, figure in Fugitive Bonds as what Phan calls, taking a phrase from Fredric Jameson, a “vanishing mediator” (10) between the categories of slave and full citizen. Their “absent presence” in the Constitution made it possible for Dou- glass to argue...

... are militarized cyborgs manufactured with synthetic biological material. With each new story, we learn a bit more about the world of resource extraction, economic warfare, and enslaved or indentured human workers trapped on colony planets. The large uber-capitalist Corporation Rim polity contrasts with the small...

.... Apess would make a bid to become that voice, but neither his fractured kinship network nor the six winters of partial schooling he received while serving out his indentures suggest a suitable origin for the expression of radical genius Apess came to exhibit in his writings. Where, then, did he...

... dynamic that has overshadowed both white indentured servitude and early Irish-Southern connections. While the fifty or sixty thousand Irish captives enslaved before 1700 constitute but an infinitesimal frac- tion of the estimated eleven million people of African descent enslaved before universal...

... a citizen or officer of the United States” ( An Act for the Protection of the People of the Indian Territory, and For Other Purposes : 511) 4 Spatially, Guarma invokes Caribbean influence. An island east of Cuba, it primarily features sugar plantations worked by indentured servants and political...

... other forms of subjection. By using underappreciated accounts of African American bondage, this study asserts the heterogeneity of black bondage by analyzing four varieties: imprisonment, Indian captivity, indentured servitude, and maritime capture. Investigating narratives by Harriet Jacobs, Henry Bibb...

... the poor of different races set aside their racial identities and recognize their shared class interests. Her principal example comes from Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), when a white girl, the indentured servant Amy Denver, helps Sethe give birth during her escape from Sweet Home. Sethe later names her...

... republic. Setting the stage, chapter 1 performs a tour-de-force reassessment of the early picaresque novel by examining instances of spiriting—that is, the practice of deceiving poor and vulnerable people into colonial indentured servitude. Nicolazzo dazzlingly argues that picaresque plots are fueled...

... labor including indenture, immigration, and outsourcing,” makes clear how “disappearance, erasure, and elimination [prove] necessary to maintain the liberal subject as the agent of historical progress.” Although Surrogate Humanity is not one of the books under consideration in this review, I begin...

... ceased to be an operative cate- gory among Southern soldiers, who, In court-houses stable their steeds— Kindle their fires with indentures and bonds, And old Lord Fairfax’s parchment...

...-Chinese violence, but also of the Caribbean island where British planters, in the 1850s and 1860s, imported indentured Chinese workers to supplement the labor of recently emancipated slaves. These sites of slavery, indenture, and overseas imperialism extend the story’s more explicit...

...: the “capture” of her image by the photographic apparatus seems inseparable from her vulnerability to confinement through legal instruments of bound servitude and institutions of incarceration and class reform. 22 As a poor child, Mary could be forced into an involuntary indenture, where she would...

... as they ful- filled the agreement’s terms, they gained autonomy as performers, hiring managers rather than being indentured to employers. P. T. Bar- num is often falsely credited with establishing the careers of the Sia- mese Twins; in fact, Chang and Eng had only a brief contract...

...-year-old Phoebe Stuart of Pennsylvania put her mark at the bottom of a legally binding indenture contract in 1811. As these examples suggest, the child’s authority in Anglo-American culture needs to be considered as more than a quaint relic of a monarchical, European past. Instead, as Holly...

... her mark at the bottom of a legally binding indenture contract in 1811. As these examples suggest, the child’s authority in Anglo-American culture needs to be considered as more than a quaint relic of a monarchical, European past. Instead, as Holly Brewer argues in her brilliant study...

... her mark at the bottom of a legally binding indenture contract in 1811. As these examples suggest, the child’s authority in Anglo-American culture needs to be considered as more than a quaint relic of a monarchical, European past. Instead, as Holly Brewer argues in her brilliant study...