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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
...D. Alissa Trotz This essay engages a key thematic of Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture —racialized, gendered and sexualized violence in the making of the “coolie” woman in British Guiana. Through literary nonfiction, Bahadur offers a rigorous and imaginative methodological...
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 8 The watercolor A Cooly Woman (artist not named), unnumbered plate in William Agnew Paton, Down the Islands: A Voyage to the Caribbees (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887), between 180 and 181.
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Gabrielle Jamela Hosein This commentary on Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture contextualizes its themes and contribution through engagement with its creative nonfiction form. It places the text within the intellectual trajectory of Indo-Caribbean feminist historiography...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 244–253.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Gaiutra Bahadur The author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture , a narrative history about indentured women, discusses researching and narrating the lives of subjects missing, at least in their own words, from the archives. She reflects on the possibilities of the personal and the present...
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 11 The right-hand image of Coolies, Man and Woman, Jamaica , a stereograph by Carleton H. Graves, 1899. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Figure 8 The watercolor A Cooly Woman (artist not named), unnumbered plate in William Agnew Paton, Down the Islands: A Voyage to the Caribbees (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887), between 180 and 181. ...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... political struggles and the search for national redemption beyond colonial inheritance. However, as with all nation-building imaginaries, this redemption is gendered and sexualized, consisting of struggles that play out on and through the bodies of Guyanese women. Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., A man found dead, aged seventy-five, after lingering since we left the Sund Head, though all that was possible was done for him by warm bath and so forth, but he refused all food of late. A coolie woman cut her own head going to jump overboard. Two died––an old man, who was rejected at the depot...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 63–67.
Published: 01 July 2017
... assembly of Caribbean art to ever be staged, but the only visible trace of the Indo-Caribbean community in it was that of a nineteenth-century photograph of an anonymous subject, titled Hindu Coolie Woman of Trinidad . Caribbean: Crossroads is hardly unique. For many reasons, including the tendency...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 123–134.
Published: 01 July 2017
... refuse to even look at the film. Once that word comes out, they just completely shut down. Even to bring up another, Gaiutra Bahadur's book Coolie Woman , there are some people who just absolutely won't open that book because of that word on that cover. And I don't know, like, I don't know how...
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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
...: African and Afro-American Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin, 1972), 33. 7 Later in this essay, I analyze Mrs. Rouse’s contention at the close of the novel: “My blood and coolie blood don’t take.” Gaiutra Bahadur writes in Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (Chicago: University...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
Published: 01 July 2017
... a contemplation of the ephemeral such as bodily gestures. 21 Kale, Fragments of Empire , 149. I leave the recruiting agent unnamed to underscore his lack of acknowledgment of the personhood of the man described, beyond the category of “coolie.” Furthermore, it is interesting to think of this quote...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Indo-Jamaican woman whom he later marries, considers him the personification of the new Jamaican: “[Those] who were Jamaicans first and anything else afterwards. The time had passed when the word coolie by itself, carried any offensiveness” (173). But Kendal inhabits himself in far more measured ways...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 80–88.
Published: 01 July 2019
... our blood had fallen short. iii. Machete: fifth limb of indenture. Chop wounds & stab wounds: read every body found with transgression. A woman pities the pandit refusing to convert, who chops off his arm. Bodies, she knows, cannot be holy. Limbs are the least of genealogical spoils...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 223–234.
Published: 01 March 2004
... fuck . . .
Abby!!
Sorry—to have sex, and is with a Coolie man, and you get he up deh in Buxton in
dese times . . . girl, I ain bothered by the sex because God knows yuh din need it but
with a Coolie man? Both a yall crazy, skunt.
Listen I gat to go...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Maximilian Christian Forte, ed., Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean: Amerindian Survival and Revival (New York: Peter Lang, 2006). 15 See David Dabydeen, Coolie Odyssey (London: Hansib, 1988); and Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (Chicago: University...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., because “Coolie Hangel Miss De Woo” is stirring up “dem coolie.” “De Woo” is William Des Voeux, a former magistrate of British Guiana who had recently departed to become the administrator of St. Lucia, and whose long letter to the colonial secretary of state in London outlining the abuse of indentured...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
... it out of the case for a photograph, viewing it with the same reverence as the framed pictures of Hindu gods, their offerings of red hibiscus flowers surrounding it. Perhaps the only collection of jewelry from the indentureship period was that of Evelyne Rayman, a Canadian Guyanese woman who...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2017
... the fascinating story of her father studying in Trinidad, and there meeting and falling in love with a woman of “Indian” descent. The family in Sri Lanka, not knowing what an Indian in Trinidad was, consulted the Encyclopedia Britannica , which offered that an Indian in Trinidad was an Arawak Indian. Taken aback...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., “Gendered Voyages into Coolitude: The Shaping of the Indo-Caribbean Woman’s Literary Consciousness,” Kunapipi 20, no. 1 (1998): 104; cited in Marina Carter and Khal Torabully, Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora (London: Anthem, 2002), 15. 11 Mel Y. Chen, introduction...
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