nam a22 c 4500 sin.15/600009536 nljbp 250625085338.4 cr ||||||||||| 131217s2011 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011037697 9789027282163 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp DU600 305.891/41109611 23 CFG bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Gounder, Farzana author Indentured Identities Resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji Farzana Gounder Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 ©2011 1 online resource (xvii, 345 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Narrative 1568-2706 15 Includes bibliographical references and index. Chapter 1. Getting acquainted with the Girmityas -- Chapter 2. Gabriel Aiyappa’s Girmit -- Chapter 3. Behind the scenes of Girmit Gāthā -- Chapter 4. Transposing the oral into written -- Chapter 5. Ram Rattan Mishar’s life narrative construction -- Chapter 6. Ram Rattan Mishar’s identity and agency reconstructions -- Restorying Girmit -- Chapter 7. Guldhari Maharaj -- Chapter 8. Ram Sundar Maharaj -- Chapter 9. Jasoda Ramdin -- Chapter 10. Ram Dulhari -- Chapter 11. Ghori Gosai Part 1 -- Chapter 12. Ghori Gosai Part 2 -- Chapter 13. Constructing ‘I’ through the life narrative -- Chapter 14. Conclusions and beginnings 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 positioning analysis, the book focuses on the situated discursive performativity of identities, and draws attention to the complex and at times conflicting positions within the life narratives. Sorting through those positions resulted in the ultimate challenge to the essentially homogenizing current master narrative discourse on who can be classified as an indentured laborer, and what signifies as an indenture experience. Provided by publisher. Contact Linguistics Discourse studies Narrative Studies Pragmatics Sociolinguistics and Dialectology Gounder, Farzana author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 9789027226556 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/sin.15 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027282163