Cultural Forms of Representation of ‘Coolies’: Khal Torabully and his Concept of Coolitude

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: Global Variants of Bonded Labour 9
5. Coolies – Asiáticos and Chinos: Global Dimensions of Second Slavery 35
6. Indentured Labour in Sub-Saharan Africa (1880-1918): Circulation of Concepts between Imperial Powers 59
7. Coolie Transformations – Uncovering the Changing Meaning and Labour Relations of Coolie Labour in the Dutch Empire (18th and 19th Century) 83
8. Variants of Bonded Labour in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia 103
9. “His Original Name Is . . .” REMAPping the Slave Experience in Saudi Arabia 133
10. Contract Labour and Debt Bondage in the Arab Gulf States. Policies and Practices within the Kafala System 163
11. Re-presenting and Narrating Labour: Coolie Migration in the Caribbean 191
12. Cultural Forms of Representation of ‘Coolies’: Khal Torabully and his Concept of Coolitude 219
13. Authors 229