With the abolition of slave trade and slavery in the nineteenth century all around the world, the British colonial powers encouraged and fostered mass migration of labour, especially from countries such as China and India. The pejorative term “coolie”, initially laden with negative connotations to describe indentured labours from Asia, became a word of resistance. This study’s main aim is to analyse the representation of Indian indentured labourers in the context of cross-cultural or intercultural interactions in fictional narratives from Mauritius. An array of different literary genres produced by Mauritian authors, in English and French, will be explored, including the poetry collection of Khal Torabully, the novel of Abhimanyu Unnuth and some comics by Jean Claude de L’Estrac, Munavvar Namdarkhan, Brindah Annasawmy and Annouchka Ramcharrun. Drawing upon the seminal work of Ward et al. on the Psychology of Culture Shock, the theories of social systems and Bronfenbrenner’s ecological environment, this study adopts a postcolonial stance to shed light on the psychological consequences of interpersonal contacts to new and foreign cultural environments, thus aspiring to contribute to the discourse on migration, cross-cultural interactions, and otherness.