Picture 1 of 1
The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba (Asian
Condition:
“Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may ”... Read moreabout condition
Price:
US $11.92
ApproximatelyC $16.40
- Buy It NowThe Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba (Asian
Best Offer:
Shipping:
Located in: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Delivery:
Estimated between Sat, Jun 22 and Tue, Jun 25 to 43230
Returns:
Payments:
Shop with confidence
Seller information
- 99.8% positive feedback
Registered as a Business Seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:355703597942
Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9781592135820
- Book Title
- Coolie Speaks : Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Caribbean & Latin American, Slavery, American / African American, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, Asia / China, Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
About this product
Product Information
The Coolie Speaks focuses on Chinese laborers who worked side by side with African slaves in Cuba and wrote of their experiences of new bondage. Examining these narratives of resistance, the book reconceptualizes diasporic representations and histories to offer transformative re-examinations of "Chinese," "African," and "Latino" in mutually imbricated contexts.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Temple University Press
ISBN-10
159213582x
ISBN-13
9781592135820
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038420280
Product Key Features
Book Title
Coolie Speaks : Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, Slavery, American / African American, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / General, Asia / China, Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd4875.C9y86 2009
Reviews
"[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." -T he Colonial Latin 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, "Exceptional.... This examination...represents an enormously significant contribution to the field. Summing Up: Highly recommended."Choice"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"Yun has made an important contribution to the history of the Coolies in Cuba and by looking at their relationship with the African slaves, she has provided us with a fresh approach to the history of repression, resistance and solidarity of nineteenth-century Cuba."E-misferica, Jan 2009, "Exceptional.... This examination...represents an enormously significant contribution to the field. Summing Up: Highly recommended."Choice"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, "[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, "[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." --T he Colonial Latin American Historical Review, "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, "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, "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, "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, "It makes significant interventions in the literatures of African slavery and Asian indentured labor, and is an important, primary document.The Coolie Speaks" will be a key work in Chinese, Caribbean, and Asian American studies for years to come." Gary Okihiro, Columbia University "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....The author is to be commended." Library Journal "Little 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 Speaksis 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 "In this exceptional study, Yun uniquely compares the original depositions in Chinese with the translated versions and meticulously explores the fascinating, complex world views of this element of the population. She superbly contextualizes the heterogeneous world of contract labor involving Africans, Indians, and Chinese around the world. This examination...represents an enormously significant contribution to the field. Summing Up: Highly recommended." Choice "The Coolie Speaksoffers a thorough interpretation of the intersection of Asian, African, Latin American, Caribbean, and North American racial and economic philosophies within the context of slavery in nineteenth-century Cuba. Its extraordinary examination of bondage in Cuba also probes questions of slavery, freedom, and race by focusing on an often-neglected dimension of Latin American historiography.... [It] provides a thorough and innovative interpretation of an important element within Latin American society." HISTORY "The Coolie Speaksis a fascinating and thought-provoking interdisciplinary work, which relates several areas of Asian, African, Caribbean, Latin American, and American Studies." The Afro-Hispanic Review "Yun has made an important contribution to the history of the Coolies in Cuba and by looking at their relationship with the African slaves, she has provided us with a fresh approach to the history of repression, resistance and solidarity of nineteenth-century Cuba."E-misferica, Jan 2009, "[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
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: Challenges of a Transitional History 1. Historical Context of Coolie Traffic to the Americas 2. The Coolie Testimonies 3. The Petitions 4. The Despositions 5. An Afro-Chinese Author and the Next Generation Conclusion: Old and New Maps of Coolies Sources Notes, Introduction: Epistemic Elasticities Chapter I/ Historical Context: Coolies to the Americas The Narrative of Transition The Early Experiments Chinese and Indian Coolie Labor Chinese Coolies and Tea with Sugar Coolies on Ships and The Passage Coolies on American Ships Coolies on Land: Coolie Slavery The Beginning of the End Chapter 2/ The Coolie Testimonies Coolie Testimonies The Commission and Transpirational Testimony Methodological Challenges Apprehending Testimonies as Narratives: Methods for Reading Reading the Testimonies: Who Were the Coolies? Chapter 3/ The Petitions The Petitions: Writing as Resistance The Witness Petition: Shouting Out the Names The Verse Petition: "Thousands of words are under the sweep of our brushes" The Argument Petition: Radical Visions of the Contract and Freedom Philosophical Prelude The Paper Chase The Paper Chase Petitions: Slaves of the Market Chapter 4/ The Depositions Race and Resistance Resistance and Spectacular Subordination The Peculiar Fatality of Color Struggle Before Solidarity The Cost of Domination Chapter 5/ Next Generation: From Coolie to Merchant Contrary Genealogies of Diaspora The Author: The Subversive and The Translator The Motley Tongue: Heterogeneity and Hybridities Liberation: In Solidarity and "Socio-political Adultery" Social Representation in the Making of Diasporic Class: Coolies and Californians Conclusion and Research Note: Old and New Mappings of the Coolie
Copyright Date
2009
Dewey Decimal
331.6/25107291
Dewey Edition
22
Item description from the seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:355703597942
Shipping and handling
Item location:
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Ships to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Excludes:
Barbados, Brazil, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Libya, Martinique, New Caledonia, Reunion, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Venezuela
| Shipping and handling | To | Service | Delivery*See Delivery notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free shipping | United States | Economy Shipping | Estimated between Sat, Jun 22 and Tue, Jun 25 to 43230 |
| US $5.95 (approx C $8.19) | United States | Expedited Shipping | Estimated between Fri, Jun 21 and Sat, Jun 22 to 43230 |
| Handling time |
|---|
| Will usually ship within 2 business days of receiving cleared payment. |
| Taxes |
|---|
| Seller charges sales tax in |
Sales tax for an item #355703597942
Sales tax for an item #355703597942
Seller collects sales tax for items shipped to the following provinces:
| Province | Sales Tax Rate |
|---|
Return policy
| After receiving the item, contact seller within | Refund will be given as |
|---|---|
| 30 days after the buyer receives it | Money Back |
The buyer is responsible for return shipping costs.
Payment details
Payment methods
Popular categories from this store
Seller feedback (203,425)
o***u (1407)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
WOW! The condition is incredible for the price I paid - I thank the seller for accepting my offer as I'm poor and need all the help I can get in obtaining the more expensive otogizoshi & other medieval & ancient Japanese Literature that I'm looking for, so this seller really was generous with the price and I thank them from the bottom of my heart. Packaged super safe, really fast shipping, and the book is like new, so much better than the Ad's description! HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SELLER FOR SURE!!
i***i (31)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past year
Verified purchase
Book arrived earlier than expected and was packaged well. Book was in better condition than described and seller was very helpful when I had questions. Best of all, price was extremely reasonable. One of the best experiences I’ve ever had with any seller on Ebay.
s***i (26)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Excellent EBAY Seller! Book was exactly as described (in excellent NEW condition), very carefully packaged and arrived to my Mailing address promptly. Excellent service, great selection of titles, good communication, and I would happily recommend and buy again from this Seller “Midtown Scholar Bookstore"…..Bravo!
Product ratings and reviews
More to explore:
- Asian Antiquarian & Collectible Books in Chinese,
- Asian Children's Antiquarian & Collectible Books in Chinese,
- Signed Asian Antiquarian & Collectible Books in Chinese,
- Hardcover Asian Antiquarian & Collectible Books in Chinese,
- Reference Asian Antiquarian & Collectible Books in Chinese,
- Illustrated Asian Antiquarian & Collectible Books in Chinese,
- Nonfiction Books Fiction & Public Speaking,
- Asian Fine Binding Antiquarian & Collectible Books in Chinese,
- Asian Exploration & Travel Antiquarian & Collectible Books in Chinese,
- Asian Illustrated 1950-Now Antiquarian & Collectible Books in Chinese