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Afrindian Fictions : Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa /

"In the first published book-length study of Indian fiction in South Africa, Pallavi Rastogi demonstrates that Indians desire South African citizenship in the fullest sense of the word, a longing for inclusion that is asserted through an "Afrindian" identity. Afrindian Fictions: Diasp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rastogi, Pallavi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2008]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Are Indians Africans too, or : when does a subcontinental become a citizen?
  • Indians in short : collectivity versus specificity in the Apartheid story
  • Essop's Fables : straregic Indianness, political occasion, and the Grand Old Man of South African Indian literature
  • National longing, natural belonging : flux and rootedness in Achmat Dangor's Kafka's curse
  • The point of return : backward glances in Farida Karodia's Other Secrets
  • Lost in transplantation : recovering the history of Indian arrival in south Africa
  • Citizen other : the implosion of racial harmony in postapartheid South Africa
  • New directions or same old? Afrindian identity and fiction today
  • Interviews : Deena Padayachee ; Ahmed Essop ; Farida Karodia ; Praba Moodley ; Aziz Hassim ; Bonnie Govender.