Indentured Identities

Name: Indentured Identities | Resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji
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Resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 21. Dezember 2011

XVII, 345 Seiten

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Indentured Identities
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Shards of memories
List of figures, maps, pictures, tables
Gloss
Getting acquainted with the Girmityas
1.1 The Girmit narrators
1.2 The language of the life narratives
1.3 Researching Girmit with the Girmityas
1.4 The research
1.5 The co-construction of Girmit
Gabriel Aiyappa's Girmit
2.1 Fiji's call for Girmityas
2.2 Girmit across the kala pani
2.3 Social structure and its problems on the Girmit plantations
2.4 And after
2.5 Summary and discussion
Behind the scenes of Girmit Gatha
3.1 Girmit Gatha
3.2 Interviewees
3.3 Interviewers
3.4 The interview
3.5 Strengths of Girmit Gatha as data
3.6 Limitations of the Girmit Gatha life narratives
3.7 Summary and discussion
Transposing the oral into written
4.1 The process as a whole
4.2 Transcribing
4.3 Transcriptional symbols
4.4 Transliterating
4.5 Translating
4.6 Summary and discussion
Ram Rattan Mishar's life narrative construction
5.1 Differentiating components by focus
5.2 Differentiating components by structure
5.3 Causal chain
5.4 Ram Rattan Mishar's well-formed narrative
Abstract
Orientation
Character orientation
Complicating action
Resolution
Evaluation
Coda
5.5 Ghori and Guldhari's habitual narratives
5.6 Sequencing of incidents in the life narrative
5.7 Summary and discussion
Ram Rattan Mishar's identity and agency reconstructions
6.1 Positioning analysis
6.2 Levels of positioning analysis
6.3 Merging Labov with Bamberg
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
6.4 Summary and discussion
Restorying Girmit
Guldhari Maharaj
7.1 Descriptive abstract: How it was
7.2 Structure
7.3 Descriptive complicating action Part 1: In the lines
7.4 Descriptive complicating action Part 2: On the plantation
7.5 Descriptive resolution: Pay day
7.6 Descriptive Coda: But they survived
7.7 Summary and discussion
Ram Sundar Maharaj
8.1 Structure
Part 1
8.2 Abstract of life narrative
8.3 Event narrative: The reason we came to Fiji
Orientation
Complicating action and resolution
8.4 Orientation 1: We served Girmit for five years
8.5 Habitual narrative 1: The work we had to do
Descriptive abstract
Descriptive complicating action
8.6 Orientation 2: Where is Bachkanya?
Part 2
8.7 Habitual narrative 2: There was a sense of community
Descriptive abstract
Descriptive complicating action
Descriptive resolution
Descriptive coda
8.8 Summary and discussion
Jasoda Ramdin
9.1 Structure
9.2 Event Narrative 1: The first day
Abstract
Orientation
Event sub-narrative 1a: In the lines
Event Sub-narrative 1b: On the plantation
Event sub-narrative 1c: Back in the lines
Coda
9.3 Event Narrative 2: I was hit
Abstract
Complicating action
Resolution
Coda
9.4 Event Narrative 3: She was beaten
Abstract
Complicating action
9.5 Habitual narrative: The consequences of a failed resistance
Descriptive abstract
Descriptive orientation
Descriptive complicating action
Habitual sub-narrative a: The mangrove swamp in Papalagi
Habitual sub-narrative b: The railway lines in Papalagi
Habitual sub-narrative c: The plantation in Daku
9.6 Coda
9.7 Summary and discussion
Ram Dulhari
10.1 Structure
10.2 Event narrative 1: How I became a Girmitya
Abstract
Sub-narrative 1a: The Arkhati
Orientation
Complicating action
Resolution
Sub-narrative 1b: The sub-depot
Orientation
Complicating action
Resolution
Sub-narrative 1c: From the depot to Fiji
Orientation
Complicating action
Resolution
Sub-narrative 1d: The quarantine depot
Orientation
Complicating action
Resolution
10.3 Event narrative 2: My first day of Girmit
Abstract
Orientation
Complicating action
Resolution
10.4 Habitual narrative 1: Routine of the plantation
10.4.1 Routine of the plantation: Part 1
Descriptive complicating action
Descriptive resolution
10.4.2 Rations: Embedded habitual narrative
Descriptive abstract
Descriptive complicating action
10.4.3 Routine of the plantation: Part 2
Descriptive complicating action
Descriptive resolution and coda
10.5 Habitual narrative 2: Why Girmit ended
Descriptive orientation
Descriptive complicating action
10.6 Habitual narrative 3: The big sickness
Descriptive abstract
Descriptive orientation
Descriptive complicating action
Descriptive resolution
10.7 Summary and discussion
Ghori Gosai Part 1
11.1 Structure
11.2 Event narrative 2: No ordinary Girmitya
Abstract
Orientation 1
Complicating actions and resolutions
Complicating action and resolution A
Orientation 2
Complicating action and resolution B
Complicating action and resolution C
Complicating action and resolution D
Coda
11.3 Event narrative 3: I recruited myself
11.4 Event narrative 4: The train journey
11.5 Event narrative 5: I bathed in the Ganges
Complicating action A
Complicating action B and resolution
11.6 Event narrative 6: I am Gowali
11.7 Event narrative 7: Why I couldn't leave right away
Orientation
Complicating actions and resolutions
Resolution A
Resolution B
Resolution C
11.8 Event narrative 8: On board Sangola I
Orientation
Resolution
Coda
11.9 Event narrative 9: The hurricane
11.10 Event narrative 10: I could have been killed
11.11 Event narrative 11: How I tricked the White men
Orientation
Complicating action
Orientation
Complicating action
11.12 Event narrative 12: My role in the dispatching of Girmityas
Abstract
Abstract and orientation
Orientation
Complicating action
Resolution and coda
11.13 Event narrative 13: At the Lautoka hospital
11.14 Event narrative 14: The journey to the plantation
11.15 Event narrative 15: The plantation
11.16 Event narrative 16: The first drama
Orientation
Complicating action
Resolution
Coda
11.17 Event narrative 17: My message to the Girmityas
Orientation
Resolution
11.18 Summary and discussion
Ghori Gosai Part 2
12.1 Structure
12.2 Event narrative 1: He didn't obey me
Complicating action A
Complicating action B
Complicating action C
12.3 Event narrative 2: How I became the sirdar
Complicating action A
Complicating action B
Complicating action C
Complicating action D
Complicating action E
Complicating action F
Complicating action G
Complicating action H
12.4 Summary and discussion
Constructing 'I' through the life narrative
13.1 Findings from study
13.2 Structure and Focus of the Girmit life narrative
13.3 Manner of Girmit narrations
13.4 Negotiation of identities and agencies in Girmit life narratives
Identities
13.5 Memory, cultural ideologies, and master narratives' influences on the Girmit life narrative
13.6 Summary and discussion
Conclusions and beginnings
14.1 Research overview
14.2 Research findings
14.3 Research limitations
14.4 Further research
References
Index

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