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After Indenture

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 63–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156774
Published: 01 July 2017
...Andil Gosine This essay introduces the special section “Art After Indenture,” in which five scholars characterize and respond to eight contemporary visual artists who are descendants of indentured workers. The author also raises questions about the commemoration of indentureship and calls...
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When the Moon Waxes Red : Afro-Asian Feminist Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Indenture

Jordache A. Ellapen
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156810
Published: 01 July 2017
..., apartheid, imperial, neoliberal—that connect black and brown lives both in the global South and global North. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 South Africa indentureship Afro-Asian memory diaspora aesthetics apartheid blackness memory work slavery fleshiness sugarcane Indenture may be seen...
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Picturing an Afterlife of Indenture

Nalini Mohabir
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156798
Published: 01 July 2017
... of affect, memory, and history related to indentureship are mobilized in the photographic arts of the Caribbean diaspora; and the aesthetic is a conceptual space with cultural resonance for the descendants of indentured laborers. In essence, the author finds that visual evidence of an indentured past...
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After Indenture: Three Photo Stories

Roshini Kempadoo, Sharlene Khan, Wendy Nanan
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 135–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156846
Published: 01 July 2017
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Port of Departure, Port of Return: Mapping Indentured Returns to Calcutta

Nalini Mohabir
Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739884
Published: 01 July 2014
...Nalini Mohabir A newly installed plaque at the port of Kolkata stands as a memorial to the indentured Indian diaspora. It conveys a collective story relevant to present desires, not past hauntings. Yet it is the tension of absences and silences that makes the port city an interesting site...
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Conjure Women and Coolie Women

Gaiutra Bahadur
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 244–253.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985959
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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Life Unadministered: Colonial Care and the Indian Coolie

Najnin Islam
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461770
Published: 01 March 2023
...Najnin Islam A discourse of care undergirded colonial political rationality during the era of Indian indenture-ship in the Caribbean. In this essay the voyage of the Salsette from Calcutta to Trinidad in 1858 serves as an entry point into a broader conversation on the repeated archival invocation...
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901696
Published: 01 July 2022
... Sinnapah Mary (Guadeloupe). Each of the four women is a descendant of indentured workers who traveled to the Caribbean in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and for each this history is a reference point in her practice. Gosine proposes a consideration of the Americas as a consequence...
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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
...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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“We Are Animal. So What?”

Rajiv Mohabir
Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10795363
Published: 01 July 2023
... by looking at Gosine’s notions of “wrecking work” and uses them to read the history of Indian indenture in the literary arts. [email protected] © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Andil Gosine coolitude indenture queer LGBTQ+ On 7 December 2021 I watched The Indentured Remembered...
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The Birth of “Quow”: Michael McTurk and the Minstrel Origins of the Civic Tradition of Creole Verse

Ben Etherington
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211836
Published: 01 November 2022
... letter to the editor in which McTurk dons the racialized mask of his persona to warn that an inquiry into the abuse of indentured Indian laborers will provoke a violent response from the Afro-Guyanese community. The essay argues that the versification of Quow’s voice seeks to implant him as a “found...
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Kitchen Table Talk: Richard Fung and Ian Harnarine in Conversation

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 123–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156834
Published: 01 July 2017
...Andil Gosine In March 2016, a group of artists and scholars met at York University in Toronto to consider visual arts produced by indenture-descendant creators. Among them were filmmakers Richard Fung and Ian Harnarine, who engaged in a dialogue about their work and responded to inquiries posed...
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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship

Tao Leigh Goffe
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985666
Published: 01 July 2018
..., they engage with the affect and entanglements of family photography to form a visual vocabulary of diasporic kinship. In doing so, the artwork—collages, documentaries, installations—interrogates the afterlife of the nineteenth-century European colonial experiment of Chinese indenture, designed to install...
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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
...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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Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge

Brinda Mehta
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-19
Published: 01 October 2006
..., sex workers, and indentured laborers via the exploration of themes such as immigration, indenture, gender marginality, social invisibility, domestic abuse, and patriarchal inviolability in Indo-Caribbean communi- ties. Her writings inscribe the negotiations of Indo-Caribbean female subjectivity...
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Communal Style: Indo-Caribbean Women's Jewelry

Joy Mahabir
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156822
Published: 01 July 2017
... churia in Rattan's is an integral part of the store, alluding to the legacies of indentured workers who crossed the kala pani with the skill of jewelry making and of indentured women who often dictated the styles of the jewelry. 1 Those working in Rattan's will not touch the silver churia or take...
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Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica

Jenny Sharpe
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901583
Published: 01 July 2022
... of things has changed,” Stark triumphantly declares. “The banana has succeeded in supplanting the sugar-cane.” 1 Bananas, which were first introduced into Jamaica in 1872, had replaced sugar as its major export crop by 1880. Their cultivation was largely undertaken by indentured workers imported from...
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Queering the Pitch from Beyond a Boundary

Madhavi Kale
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 38–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642746
Published: 01 March 2014
... the concessions made by their national governments that they share a legacy of indentured labor. How might Caribbean and South Asian historiography, respectively, in this particular moment in history be both critical of and productive for the other, and for historical practice and criticism in general? I...
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Recuperating the Value of Nothing in Erna Brodber’s Short Novel Nothing’s Mat

Dashiell Moore
Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 18–32.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10795181
Published: 01 July 2023
... to lead the funeral procession, a sequence that resembles the tradition of kumina that in interviews Brodber associates with indentured Afri-cans. 29 Immediately, the procession dance is disrupted by the draconian punishment following Morant Bay, whereupon Maud is gang-raped by a group of officers...
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Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism: Rereading Anton de Kom

Guno Jones
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461885
Published: 01 March 2023
... of production and all misery would be overcome. 24 Unlike Williams, De Kom was not yet concerned with exploring in any great detail the relation between slavery/indenture and wealth creation in the Netherlands, even if he hinted at this connection. As mentioned, the entanglement of colonies and metropole...
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