Truth, Memory and Enforced Disappearance: Experiences of Female Indentured Labourers in Nilima Rao’s a Disappearance in Fiji
摘要
The disappeared spectre of Kunti haunts the collective imagination of the Fijian indentured labourers. The enforced disappearance of Kunti foregrounds the political status of the disappeared body who enters into a state of continuous absent present, a spectre or a ghost that constantly haunts the psyche of the survivors. The study attempts to probe into the construction of the post truth narrative surrounding the disappearance of the indentured Indian servant, Kunti in Nilima Rao in A Disappearance in Fiji. It intends to understand the political ramifications underlying the construction of post truth narratives surrounding the event of “enforced disappearance”. It intends to reconstruct the memory of female indentured servants in Fiji and thereby foreground and rewrite the spectral presence of all the disappeared bodies of the indentured servants. It incorporates the methodology of post memory, and counter memory so as to describe the collective, generational, cultural and social trauma of those who have been haunted by the spectre of the disappeared body.