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Jahaji: An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction

Jahaji: An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction Softcover - 2000

by BIRBALSINGH, Frank, edited by

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Toronto: TSAR, 2000. Softcover. Fine. First edition, a paperback original. Bottom corner a bit bumped else fine in glossy wrappers.
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  • Title Jahaji: An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction
  • Author BIRBALSINGH, Frank, edited by
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition Not Indicated
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 190
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher TSAR, Toronto
  • Date 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 550397
  • ISBN 9780920661888 / 0920661882
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.74 x 5.74 x 0.58 in (22.20 x 14.58 x 1.47 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
  • Library of Congress subjects Caribbean Area - Social life and customs, East Indians - Caribbean Area
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00456653
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear cover

Indians have lived in the Caribbean for more than a hundred and sixty years, ever since they took to the ships to work on the sugar plantations. Jahaji (the term meaning "ship traveler") brings together a representative selection of Indo-Caribbean fiction from three generations of writers. Together, the sixteen writers included here give us an imaginative depiction of the experiences of their people across a span of fifty years--the hopes, aspirations and frustrations of life in colonial Trinidad and Guyana, the post-independence tribulations of third-world citizens, and the quest for meaning and identity in the second migration to Canada, the United States, and Britain. Featuring work by: Ismith Khan, Elahi Baksh, Jan Shinebourne, Sharlow Mohammed, Madeline Coopsammy, Narmala Shewcharan, Harishchandra Khemraj, Sasenarine Persaud, Cyril Dabydeen, Rooplall Monar, Marina Budhos, Christine Singh, Shani Mootoo, Rabindranath Maharaj, Rajnie Ramlakhan, Raywat Deonandan

About the author

Born in Guyana, Frank Birbalsingh is a professor of English at York University in Toronto. He is a pioneering scholar of Indo-Caribbean studies and edited the ground-breaking collections of studies Indenture and Exile and Indo-Caribbean Resistance.