"Coolie Woman" with Gaiutra Bahadur

December 2, 2013
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism - World Room
116th Street and Broadway
New York, NY, 10027, United States

Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Center for International History

In 1903, a young woman, alone and pregnant, sailed from India to Guiana as an indentured laborer. In her internationally-acclaimed new book, Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her great-grandmother, excavating the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women.

Click below to watch an intimate conversation between Bruce Shapiro and Bahadur about constructing what Junot Diaz calls "An astonishing document . . . both a historical rescue mission and a profound meditation on family and womanhood."

Speaker Bio:
Gaiutra Bahadur is an American journalist and book critic who writes frequently about the culture and politics of global migration. Her reporting, criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The (London) Observer and Ms., among other publications.

 

 

 

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