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The Girmit ideology re-examined
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The Girmit ideology re-examined

V. Mishra
Language and Literature, pp.240-253
The University of the South Pacific/Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
1983
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Abstract

"Because of what I am and because of what you saw I am a terrible object of fascination for you. I am a severed head such as primitive tribes and old alchemists used to use, anointing it with oil and putting a morsel of gold upon its tongue to make it utter prophecies. And who knows but that long acquaintance with a severed head might not lead to strange knowledge. for such knowledge one would have paid enough."

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