Format:
1 online resource (272 pages)
ISBN:
9781400842612
Content:
The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Under the Gaze: Freedom and Race after Apartheid -- Freedom and Sovereignty after Apartheid -- Melancholia of Freedom -- Between Irrelevance and Irreverence: "Our Culture" after Apartheid -- Structure of the Book -- Methods and Material -- Chapter 1: Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa -- The Asiatic Question -- The New Hygienic Indian -- Census et Censura -- The New Indian Social Body -- Policing the Internal Frontier -- Containing the Bush: Crime and Vigilantes in the Age of Democratic Policing -- Chapter 2: Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy -- From Kinship to Family -- The New Indian Woman and the Family House -- Tongues without Speech: Caste as Language Community -- "Our Culture" as Embarrassment -- Cultural Intimacy and Embarrassment: Charous and Lahnees -- Class and Charou Names -- Performing in the Gaze: The Indian Public Sphere -- Joke-Work on a Saturday Morning -- Comic Belief? Laughter and Cultural Intimacy -- Charou 4 Eva: Domesticity Lost and Refound -- Chapter 3: Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition -- AmaKula and amaZulu on the Colonial Estates -- Durban, January 1949: "The Largest Race Riot in the World" -- Cato Manor and the Urban Zulu -- The Indian "1949 Syndrome" as a Social Text -- The Syndrome Affirmed: Inanda 1985 -- Racism's Two Bodies -- Racial Practice, Indian-Style -- Africans at Our Doorsteps -- Somatic Anxieties -- Nonrecognition and the Elusive Master -- Chapter 4: Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech -- Local Affairs and the Problem of Indian Speech -- The House of Delhigoats -- "Scandals Are the Foundations of the State" -- Who Speaks for the Community? The Particular as Universalist Gesture.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691152950
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780691152950
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=893067
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