Avatars of Fiji’s Girmit narrative

Lal, Brij V.

doi:10.1075/sin.21.09lal

In:Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands
Edited by Farzana Gounder
[Studies in Narrative 21] 2015
► pp. 177–191

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Avatars of Fiji’s Girmit narrative

Brij V. Lal

Published online: 20 May 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/sin.21.09lal

This chapter explores the changing narrative about the girmit experience in Fiji and the ways in which that is remembered and reproduced in Fiji and in the Indo-Fijian diaspora. An experience once shunned by scholars and the public alike, is now being embraced as a foundational part of Indo-Fijian history and seen as the triumph of the human spirit over the most difficult conditions of adversity.

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