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MULTIPLE IDENTITIES IN ACTION KARTONIERT (TB)

An island with no native population  Mauritius was permanently peopled through colonisation as
from the early eighteenth century. European colonists  African and Malagasy slaves  Indian
contract labourers  Chinese and Indian petty merchants settled on the island and progressively
created a society shaped by the diversity of its population and also by the unequal access to
limited resources and wealth. Contemporary Mauritius tends to be sensitive to its multiple
origins and identity boundaries  as well as to potential conflicts and the importance of
interaction and communication in a multicultural society. Common denominators of culture and
language  as well as dynamic processes of cultural and linguistic hybridity  that could form
the basis of an all-Mauritian culture thus become crucial. This is shown in the studies
presented in this volume which are given a wider perspective through comparison with other
post-colonial societies such as the French Caribbean.

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