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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
St Lucia,
Indooroopilly - St Lucia area,
Brisbane - North West,
Brisbane,
Queensland,:University of Queensland Press
, 1979 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Trouble is How You Meet It,
extract
autobiography
(p. 67-80)
This extract describes the difficulties associated with managing the labour-force of a sugar plantation and mill. The hiring of sidars (Indian overseers), an attempted strike and a serious dispute over wages are all related, with Gill achieving a small victory over his workforce in each case. However, he is also misled into poisoning a worker and at the end of the extract he reveals his young age: "In the September of that year I was twenty-two".
- The Guru, single work short story (p. 140-149)
- The Ghosti"in the shadow of a tamarind tree", single work poetry (p. 150-152)
- Hope in Delhii"The winter in Delhi", single work poetry (p. 153-155)
- My Father's Soni"the airport metallic, tarred,", single work poetry (p. 156-159)
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Indo-Fijian Fiction and the Girmit Ideology,
single work
criticism
(p. 171-183)In this early essay on Indo-Fijian fiction, Vijay Mishra considers the reverberations of an 'Indian indenture consciousness' in the contemporary literary work of Satendra Nandan, Subramani and Raymond Pillai.
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