Khal Torabully (77 results)

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Hardback. Condition: New. An arresting, musical ode to the forgotten voyages and resilient identities of indentured peoples.Cargo Hold of Stars gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Kept in close quarters in the ship's cargo hold, many died; most never returned home. Here, Khal Torabully introduces the concept of "Coolitude," echoing Aimé Césaire's "Negritude" to imbue the term with profound dignity, pride, and a resilient cultural identity. Stating that ordinary language could not capture these diverse voices, Torabully develops a new "poetics of Coolitude": a French peppered with Mauritian Creole, brilliant wordplay, and neologisms.The humor in these linguistic acrobatics only underscores the violence in which these poems are steeped. Deftly translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Cargo Hold of Stars is the song of an uprooting, destruction, and reconstruction. Yet it also celebrates setting down roots, conjuring an ideal homeland of fraternity and reconciliation in which bodies, memories, and languages mingle-a compelling odyssey defining the essence of humankind.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Coolitude is both an intellectual interpretation of and a poetic and artistic immersion into the world of the vanished coolie. This collection of previously unpublished texts, poems and sketches captures the essence of the Indian plantation experience and deconstructs traditional depictions of the status of the coolie in the British Empire.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Coolitude is both an intellectual interpretation of and a poetic and artistic immersion into the world of the vanished coolie. This collection of previously unpublished texts, poems and sketches captures the essence of the Indian plantation experience and deconstructs traditional depictions of the status of the coolie in the British Empire.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Cargo Hold of Stars is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Many were transported overseas to other European colonies. Kept in close quarters in the ships cargo hold, many died. Most never returned home. With Cargo Hold of Stars, Torabully introduces the concept of Coolitude in a way that echoes Aime Cesaires term Negritude, imbuing the term with dignity and pride, as well as a strong and resilient cultural identity and language. Stating that ordinary language was not equipped to bring to life the diverse voices of indenture, Torabully has developed a poetics of Coolitude: a new French, peppered with Mauritian Creole, wordplay, and neologismsand always musical. The humor in these linguistic acrobatics serves to underscore the violence in which his poems are steeped. Deftly translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Cargo Hold of Stars is the song of an uprooting, of the destruction and the reconstruction of the indentured laborers identity. But it also celebrates setting down roots, as it conjures an ideal homeland of fraternity and reconciliation in which bodies, memories, stories, and languages minglea compelling odyssey that ultimately defines the essence of humankind. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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