Mauritian History

Rainbow Colors: Literary Ethno-topographies of Mauritius (After the Empire : the Francophone World and Postcolonial France) By Srilata Ravi Lexington Books Hardcover (188 pages) List Price: $70.00 Lowest New Price: $69.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 01:53 Pacific 8 Oct 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The narratives under consideration in Rainbow Colorsdepict the Mauritius's history of competing colonial forces, describe its intricate social geography of free and forced migrations, and portray the anxieties of mixed race persons and cultures in postcolonies. By conceptualizing literature as the overlapping space of ethnic-cultural realities, national and transnational identities, and a poetics of alterity, Rainbow Colors explores how different literary ethno-topographies of Mauritius are produced at this intersection.

The Mauritian Shekel By GeneviZve Pitot Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Paperback (272 pages) List Price: $31.95 Lowest New Price: $31.95 Lowest Used Price: $39.98 Usually ships in 11 to 14 days (As of 01:53 Pacific 8 Oct 2008 More Info) Click Here Product Description: In 1940 thousands of Jews were trying to flee Nazi persecution in Europe. This is the little-known story of a group of 1,600 Jewish refugees who, having escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe, were refused entry into Palestine by the British in 1940 because they were considered OillegalO immigrants. Their deportation after landing in the Promised Land, Eretz Israel, was unique. As a deterrent to others, they were deported to Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean. They were detained in a Mauritian prison until the end of the war and were deprived of all basic human rights even that of family life. This story sheds light on the British governmentOs lack of understanding of the critical problem of Jewish refugees at that time.