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Genre/Form: | Electronic book Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Yun, Lisa, 1963- Coolie speaks. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007020202 (OCoLC)129957491 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lisa Yun |
ISBN: | 9781592135837 1592135838 1281383058 9781281383051 |
OCLC Number: | 233818126 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 311 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Challenges of a Transnational History; Chapter 1: Historical Context of Coolie Traffi c to the Americas; Chapter 2: The Coolie Testimonies; Chapter 3: The Petitions; Chapter 4: The Depositions; Chapter 5: An Afro- Chinese Author and the Next Generation; Conclusion: Old and New Maps of Coolies; Addendum: Selected Petitions; Sources; Notes. |
Series Title: | Asian American history and culture. |
Other Titles: | Chinese indentured laborers and african slaves in Cuba |
Responsibility: | Lisa Yun. |
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"[Yun] has opened up a horrific oyster shell embedded in the reefs of the slave trade.... Yet the power and striking originality of The Coolie Speaks lies less in its message than in its harsh but elegant dialectic of recovery and storytelling.... The Coolie Speaks is a breakthrough of scholarship. It provides a new map not just of the Atlantic slave trade, Chinese diaspora, and modern capitalism, but of scholarly means to articulate the words, places, and stories that tumble outward from the violent and fractured history of modernity. Like Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Coolie Speaks seems to find a root language to remember and memorialize human suffering and agency, while teaching us again as scholars and citizens of the world to listen carefully to the cries, whispers, and exhortations of the past." - Callaloo "The book begins with an impressive contextualization of the movement of coolie labor across the Pacific, by far the most detailed analysis at hand. The core of Yun's book, however, is an examination of the coolie testimonies themselves.... This is a major addition to our understanding of the subjectivity of subaltern peoples and of the power relations in which subaltern texts are embedded. It should be obligatory reading for historians working in many fields-Latin American and Caribbean history, most obviously, but also the politics of testimonial production in general." -The American Historical Review "[L]ittle critical attention has been paid to one of the most important testimonials in Latin American history: The Cuba Commission Report. Lisa Yun's timely and well-written book is undoubtedly the most complete study to date on this jewel for the study of race relations, labor migration, and the international division of labor. Her outstanding analysis of the testimonial is complemented with other testimonies related to the so-called coolie trade in Cuba. In this sense, the book rescues from oblivion the abuses committed against southern Chinese indentured laborers... The Coolie Speaks is of interest not only for Chinese diaspora studies but also for Latin American, Caribbean, and Pan-African studies and literary criticism. This book is bound to become a seminal work for the study of the Chinese presence in the Americas." -The Colonial Latin American Historical Review "The individual testimonies...are stunning in their particularity and personality. Some use Chinese historic and poetic allusions in sophisticated ways, some are quite simple, and all are anguishing....[T]he author is to be commended."-Library Journal Read more...


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- Indentured servants -- Cuba -- History.
- Foreign workers, Chinese -- Cuba -- History.
- Slave labor -- Cuba -- History.
- Foreign workers, African -- Cuba -- History.
- Slaves' writings -- History and criticism.
- Revolutionary literature, Cuban -- History and criticism.
- Cuba -- Race relations -- History.
- Cuba -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
- HISTORY -- General.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Foreign workers, African.
- Foreign workers, Chinese.
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- Revolutionary literature, Cuban.
- Slave labor.
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