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A Letter to My Great-Grandmother

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985947
Published: 01 July 2018
... Woman exemplifies postindenture or “coolietude” aesthetics otherwise documented in art, performance, and photography. Taking this up, the commentary’s letter form is counterarchival, an imaginative and intergenerational object that cites Bahadur’s techniques of memory work and her provocation...
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Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman : Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities

D. Alissa Trotz
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985935
Published: 01 July 2018
... produced on arrival. Many of the questions the author poses throughout relate to how women might have felt —in one telling paragraph Bahadur wonders what it meant to be a coolie woman: “To not only be powerless, but made to feel just how powerless [one] was? Was ‘coolietude’ . . . an emotional state...
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