Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.0053
Karin Shankar
Priyageetha Dia is a Singapore-based transdisciplinary artist whose work brings together South-East Asian plantation histories, postcolonial memory, migration politics, and extractivism as it relates to both labour and data. The conversation focuses on submerged and speculative archives of indentureship in Dia’s work. Dia describes how specific strategies, such as layering archival images, embodying diasporic Tamil ritual, as well as incorporating CGI and 3D animation in her moving image installations create a counter archive of the histories and afterlives of indentureship in present-day Malaysia and Singapore.
Priyageetha Dia 是一位来自新加坡的跨学科艺术家，其作品汇集了东南亚种植园历史、后殖民记忆、移民政治以及与劳动和数据相关的采掘主义。对话的重点是迪亚作品中被淹没和被推测的契约档案。迪亚描述了她如何通过特定的策略，如将档案图像分层、体现散居泰米尔人的仪式，以及将 CGI 和三维动画融入她的动态影像装置中，在当今的马来西亚和新加坡创造出契约历史和契约后遗症的反档案。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.000i
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.0031
Doug Munro
Brij Lal was mentored by Ken Gillion during the former’s doctoral work at the Australian National University in the late-1970s. The resulting thesis was a pathbreaking quantitative analysis of the 45,439 North Indians who went to Fiji as indentured labourers between 1879 and 1916 – centering on such variables as the places of origin, their age, gender, marital status, caste, and family circumstances. 1 The much-reduced monograph that derived from the thesis is a thoroughgoing statistical profile that has stood the test of time and been a model for subsequent work. 2 So we can thank Ken Gillion for his part in the ‘making’ of Brij Lal. Gillion and Lal became good friends, each holding the other in high regard. I knew them both, Lal far better than Gillion. As will be seen, Lal and I have contrasting views on Gillion as a person and as a scholar. Bringing to bear my own observations dating back to 1973, the archival record and a reading of Gillion and Lal’s writings, I discuss the evolving relationship between these two major historians of Indo-Fijian indenture.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.0063
Melissa Baksh
On the occasion of the Guyanese-born artist Suchitra Mattai’s solo exhibition ‘Monster’ in London, the Art historian and writer Melissa Baksh interviewed Mattai about her work. This interview took place at Unit London in February 2022 and touched on themes such as the representation of women of the South Asian diaspora and how society ‘others’ and stigmatizes immigrants and those experiencing mental health problems.
在圭亚那出生的艺术家 Suchitra Mattai 在伦敦举办个展 "怪物 "之际，艺术史学家兼作家 Melissa Baksh 就 Mattai 的作品对她进行了采访。这次访谈于 2022 年 2 月在 Unit London 举行，涉及的主题包括南亚移民社群妇女的代表性，以及社会如何 "他人化 "和污名化移民和有心理健康问题的人。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.0105
Nienke Boer
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.0079
Maria del Pilar Kaladeen
The recent commemorations in 2018 and 2023, of the 70th and 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, have prompted a deeper engagement with the history of post-war migration from the Caribbean to the ‘motherland’. As public awareness of the economic contribution the Windrush Generation (1948–1971) made to Britain grows, there is also an increasing curiosity in the artistic output of this community and their descendants. However, when museums and cultural institutions choose to engage with the history of the Windrush Generation and its influence, such representations focus on Black Britain and a celebration of the African-Caribbean presence; little or no acknowledgment is given to the community of Indian-Caribbean heritage, who also formed part of the Windrush Generation. Frequently for example, art exhibitions, book lists and musical celebrations ignore the Indian-Caribbean presence with the UK’s Guardian newspaper recently publishing an article entitled ‘Windrush at 75: books that shaped the black British experience’ (author’s italics).In this article I seek to analyze the literary contribution made by writers of Indian-Caribbean heritage, who were part of the Windrush Generation. From Sam Selvon, the author of the classic Windrush novel The Lonely Londoners to lesser-known writers such as Lakshmi Persaud and Elly Niland, I argue that Indian-Caribbean writers have complicated the binaries of the current Windrush narrative and have perhaps been afforded less consideration as a result. My aim in this article is to offer a preliminary analysis of the literary odyssey of Indian-Caribbean writers during this period
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.0098
Holly Eva Ryan
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.0003
Aneeta Sundararaj
This photo essay chronicles the life of my grandfather, C. Rajah, who travelled from India to British Malaya in or around 1920. He eventually made his home in a rubber estate in the north of the Malay peninsula called Foothills Estate, Kulim. There, he grew his family and built a life that was, by all accounts, a good one. The story I tell is based on tales I heard about him and Foothills Estate, documents in my possession and some items I inherited. It is an attempt to counter the stereotype in modern Malaysia that those who come from the estates are to be regarded as ‘uncultured, illiterate and poor’.
这篇照片文章记录了我祖父 C. Rajah 的一生，他于 1920 年前后从印度来到英属马来亚。他最终在马来半岛北部一个名为古林山麓庄园的橡胶园安了家。在那里，他成家立业，过上了人们口中的美好生活。我讲述的故事是基于我听到的关于他和麓山庄园的传说、我手中的文件以及我继承的一些物品。这个故事试图反驳现代马来西亚人的刻板印象，即认为来自庄园的人是 "没有文化、不识字和贫穷的人"。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.0102
Lomarsh Roopnarine
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Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.1.1.0163
Tao Leigh Goffe, Andrea Chung
Scholar Tao Leigh Goffe, co-editor of the Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, interviews mixed media visual artist Andrea Chung who is based in the United States. Connecting the histories of the Great Experiment of indenture in Mauritius and the Trinidad Experiment of Chinese indentureship in the Caribbean, the two discuss the history of labour exploitation and the abolition of racial slavery comparatively across oceans. Themes include those tackled in Chung's artwork spanning colonialism, loss, motherhood, Afro-Asian heritage, and the material culture of global indentureship.
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