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Indentured identities : resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji /
The book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not been...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Indic |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in narrative ;
v. 15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The book explores the historical dimension of Indian indenture from within the lived experience of laborers, who emigrated to Fiji from colonial India a century ago. As these laborers are no longer alive, one could argue that the experience of indenture is no longer accessible, if there had not been recordings of the laborers' life narratives. It is seven of these audio recordings, made for public broadcast, which form the data for a fine-grained language-analysis to unearth the life-world of indenture. Through the merging of Labov's high-point analysis with Bamberg's posit. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027282163 9027282161 9027226555 9789027226556 128335991X 9781283359917 |
| ISSN: | 1568-2706 ; |