Collective Memory, Identity and the Legacies of Slavery and Indenture
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The Caribbean history provides a rich study of the different forms of labour systems that have historically marked the politics of the coloniser and the colonised. It further provides the basis for an essential study for discourses on colonialism and capitalism. This interdisciplinary volume bridges the gap between historiography and the present-day diasporic communities, which emerged from the slave trade and indenture. Through case studies from the Caribbean context, the volume demonstrates how the region's historical labour mobility remains central to performances and negotiations of…mehr

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The Caribbean history provides a rich study of the different forms of labour systems that have historically marked the politics of the coloniser and the colonised. It further provides the basis for an essential study for discourses on colonialism and capitalism. This interdisciplinary volume bridges the gap between historiography and the present-day diasporic communities, which emerged from the slave trade and indenture. Through case studies from the Caribbean context, the volume demonstrates how the region's historical labour mobility remains central to performances and negotiations of collective memory and identity.

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Autorenporträt
Farzana Gounder is a linguist and the Deputy Head of School (Research) at IPU Tertiary Institute, New Zealand. Gounder's research interests draw on her indenture heritage. She has extensively examined oral narratives of indenture and their role in collective memory formation. Bridget Brereton is Emerita Professor of History at UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Jerome Egger is a Historian, specializing in the twentieth century history of Suriname. Egger is presently the Head of History department of the Faculty of Humanities. Hilde Neus-van der Putten is a Dutch writer and publicist based in Suriname. She writes regular book reviews for the daily newspaper de Ware Tijd, and articles on history in Museumstof.