Alison Klein is a Lecturer in International Writing at Duke University, USA. Her work has been published in the anthology Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments, and the journals Anthurium, South Asian Review, and The Journal of Commonwealth Literatures.

• 1. Introduction: The Ties That Bind.- 2. To Have and to Hold: The Role of Marriage in Nonfiction Indenture Narratives.- 3.Tying the Knot: Early Depictions of Indenture.- 4.Tangled Up: Gendered Metaphors of Nation in Contemporary Indo-Caribbean Narratives.- 5.  Family Ties: Embodiment of Female Laborers in the Poetry of Indenture.- 6. At the End of their Tether: Women Writing about Indenture.- 7. Conclusion: Loose Threads.

Alison Klein is a Lecturer in International Writing at Duke University, USA. Her work has been published in the anthology Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments, and the journals Anthurium, South Asian Review, and The Journal of Commonwealth Literatures.

• 1. Introduction: The Ties That Bind.- 2. To Have and to Hold: The Role of Marriage in Nonfiction Indenture Narratives.- 3.Tying the Knot: Early Depictions of Indenture.- 4.Tangled Up: Gendered Metaphors of Nation in Contemporary Indo-Caribbean Narratives.- 5.  Family Ties: Embodiment of Female Laborers in the Poetry of Indenture.- 6. At the End of their Tether: Women Writing about Indenture.- 7. Conclusion: Loose Threads.

Alison Klein is a Lecturer in International Writing at Duke University, USA. Her work has been published in the anthology Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments, and the journals Anthurium, South Asian Review, and The Journal of Commonwealth Literatures.

• 1. Introduction: The Ties That Bind.- 2. To Have and to Hold: The Role of Marriage in Nonfiction Indenture Narratives.- 3.Tying the Knot: Early Depictions of Indenture.- 4.Tangled Up: Gendered Metaphors of Nation in Contemporary Indo-Caribbean Narratives.- 5.  Family Ties: Embodiment of Female Laborers in the Poetry of Indenture.- 6. At the End of their Tether: Women Writing about Indenture.- 7. Conclusion: Loose Threads.