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New Contracts Old Chains; A Survival Saga in Lacpatiya’s Boadour

Author(s) Mr. Bhawani Singh Sankhala
Country India
Abstract This paper discusses how the notion of survival is represented in the 1977 novel by Firmin Lacpatiya, Boadour a la Gange, set among the nineteenth-century indentured servants in the French-controlled island of Réunion. Based on postcolonial theory, trauma studies and work on cultural persistence, the paper suggests that the novel presents survival in three overlapping dimensions, which explains how indentured workers can survive amid the violence of the institutional system. Indentured labour is a recreation of the exploitative and oppressive systems of slavery, despite the fact that it is legally different than chattel slavery. The discussion shows that the protagonist of Lacpatiya, Boadour, and the larger community of the plantation avoid open rebellion in favour of more mundane activities of culture preservation, the passing of intergenerational memory, and the reestablishment of identity in colonial eradication. Placing the novel in the broader contexts of survivance, the analysis reveals how the literary imagination of Lacpatiya would conceptualise this historical experience of indentureship as the perpetual meditation on dignity, belonging, and politics of remembrance. As such, the study can be added to the French postcolonial literature and cross-disciplinary discussions in the field of forced migration, racial trauma, and cultural resistance in the context of the Indian Ocean.
Keywords Indentured labor, Postcolonial literature, Survival, Cultural resistance,Intergenerational trauma Memory transmission, Creolization, Cultural hybridity
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Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-03-27
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.72688
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