Download or read book Contradictory Indianness written by Atreyee Phukan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Indenture, creolization, and literary imaginary -- Passage and poetics in Totaram Sanadhya and LalBihari Sharma -- Repatriation and the "Indian problem" in Ismith Khan's The Jumbie bird (1960) -- The trope of the ricefield in Harold Sonny Ladoo's No pain like this body (1972) -- (En)Gendering indenture in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night (1992).