In 1903 a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a coolie the 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 Now in Coolie Woman her great granddaughter 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 great grandmother s 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 voyages traumatic middle passages only to face a life of hard labor dismal living conditions and especially sexual exploitation As Bahadur explains however it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history Greatly outnumbered by men they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords Complex and unpredictable sex was nevertheless a powerful tool Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women s lives Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival a gripping story of a double diaspora from India to the West Indies in one century Guyana to the United States in the next that is at once a search for one s roots and an exploration of gender and power peril and opportunity In 1903 a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a coolie the 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 Now you can buy Books online in USA,UK, India and more than 100 countries.
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