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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a cooliethe British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. In Coolie Woman, her greatgranddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Bahadur excavates not only her greatgrandmothers story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives.Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were either runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many of them left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyagestraumatic middle passagesonly to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions and sexual exploitation. Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diasporafrom India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the nextthat is at once a search for ones roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.
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