Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. PART I: THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA
5. 1. The Multiple Voices of Indenture History: An Introduction 3
6. 2. New Approaches to an Old Diaspora: Theorizing Texts and Contexts 14
7. PART II: AFRICA
8. 3. The Indenture Narrative of Mauritius: Deepchand Beeharry’s That Others Might Live 41
9. 4. ‘Passenger Indians’ and Dispossessed Citizens in Uganda and South Africa: Peter Nazareth’s In a Brown Mantle and Farida Karodia's Daughters of the Twilight 66
10. PART III: THE CARIBBEAN
11. 5. New Confi gurations of Identity for the Indo-Guyanese ‘This Time Generation’: Rooplall Monar’s Janjhat and Narmala Shewcharan's Tomorrow Is Another Day 99
12. 6. Indo-Trinidadian Fictions of Community within the Metanarratives of ‘Faith’: Lakshmi Persaud’s Butterfl y in the Wind and Sharlow Mohammed's The Elect 127
13. PART IV: ASIA-PACIFIC
14. 7. The Politics of (the English) Language in Malaysia and Singapore: K.S. Maniam’s The Return and Gopal Baratham's A Candle or the Sun 157
15. 8. From the Ganges to the South Seas: Fiji as ‘Fatal Paradise’ in Satendra Nandan’s The Wounded Sea 179
16. Conclusion 196
17. Notes 203
18. Bibliography 231
19. Index 249