TY  - BOOK
AU  - Audrey Fernandes-Satar
PY  - 2014
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035106848
TI  - After The Last Ship
T2  - A Post-colonial Reconstruction of Diaspora
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0684-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052794
N2  - After the Last Ship illustrates the author’s own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race’. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal  in the 1960’s and 1970’s  and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste’, ‘canecos’ and ‘monhe’ can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how  identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
KW  - history, India, oppressive policies, displacement, empowerment
LA  - English
ER  -