Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.2.1.0125
Michelle Mohabeer, Amar Wahab
Scholar Amar Wahab, co-editor of the Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies, interviews queer diasporic filmmaker and lecturer Dr. Michelle Mohabeer about her critical and creative documentary interventions – spanning over 30 years – which seek to queer indentureship and Indo-Caribbean diasporic identity and experience. The dialogue focuses especially on her creative essay documentary Queer Coolie-tudes (2019), which places the slurs – ‘queer’ and ‘coolie’ – into proximity and conversation as a way of critically reclaiming them. In so doing, Mohabeer expands the contours of what it means to queer indentureship’s archive by ‘visualizing an Indo-Caribbean diasporic aesthetic’.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.1.0146
Reshaad Durgahee
In this short essay, the author examines the influence of the concept of Coolitude on his understanding of the Indian indenture experience. Parallels between patterns of immigration are alluded to – whether the indentured immigration of the nineteenth and early twentieth century or post-colonial immigration from those sugar colonies of empire to their former metropoles. Coolitude’s recognition of the role of space and place is at the fore and the author asks us to take this into account in our exploration of the global indentured story, making the case for a more concentrated address of the geography of indenture.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.2.2.0128
J. Miller, Amar Wahab
Scholar Amar Wahab, co-editor of the Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies, interviews British High Commissioner to Guyana, Jane Miller, OBE, about her perspectives on LGBT human rights in Guyana. They discuss issues related to the legacies of the colonial regulation of gender and sexuality, the inclusion of diverse identities, and collaboration with LGBT activist organizations in Guyana.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.1.0095
Christian Cuniah
Following the end of slavery, the Indians contracted to work in the colonies were always seen in a negative light; they were known as ‘beasts of burden’; the designation ‘coolie’ itself, at the time, was a derogatory term. At the beginning of the 20th century, as black intellectuals Sedar Senghor, Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Dubois brought about a new consciousness, a renaissance of black cultures and values, other intellectuals in the colonies began to realize that their cultural specificities demanded similar awareness and recognition. Chamoiseau and Confiant were pioneers in writing about the Creole experience and identity, and popularized the concept of Creolite. However, it was recognized that Creolite could not be applied equally to all social constituents. Khal Torabully’s concept of Coolitude provides us with a theoretical framework within which the term coolie undergoes a radical change. The term is here divested of all negative associations and invested with positive connotations: shared experiences during the voyage by sea and during exile in the land of adoption, where all migrants in Coolitude have a common culture and have forged a plural identity.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.2.1.000i
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