Maharini's Misery - Shepard, Verene; Shepherd, Verene A.
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This book continues the ongoing archaeological project of excavating gender-differentiated data on the nineteenth-century post-slavery relocation of bonded labour to the colonial Caribbean. In a broader context, it contributes to that genre of historical writing that focuses on the exercise of social power and authority, through the medium of socio-sexual manipulation, by empowered males over subaltern women. The book combines documentary evidence with a surrounding narrative interpretation in order to highlight the experiences of the young Indian woman, Maharani, who was raped, and died…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This book continues the ongoing archaeological project of excavating gender-differentiated data on the nineteenth-century post-slavery relocation of bonded labour to the colonial Caribbean. In a broader context, it contributes to that genre of historical writing that focuses on the exercise of social power and authority, through the medium of socio-sexual manipulation, by empowered males over subaltern women. The book combines documentary evidence with a surrounding narrative interpretation in order to highlight the experiences of the young Indian woman, Maharani, who was raped, and died subsequently, on board the ship Allanshaw that sailed from Calcutta to colonial Guyana in 1885. The events on this passage from India should provide further that nineteenth-century labour "migration" replicated several aspects of the Middle Passage of enslaved Africans, although it was never allowed to reach slavery's brutal limits.
Autorenporträt
Verene A. Shepherd is a social historian and director of the Centre for Reparation Research, the University of the West Indies, . Her many publications include Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World (co-edited with Hilary McD. Beckles) and Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean.