UID:
almahu_9949702303002882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004365032
Series Statement:
Cross/cultures ; 203
Content:
Writers of Indian origin seldom appear in the South African literary landscape, although the participation of Indian South Africans in the anti-apartheid struggle was anything but insignificant. The collective experiences of violence and the plea for reconciliation that punctuate the rhythms of post-apartheid South Africa delineate a national script in which ethnic, class, and gender affiliations coalesce and patterns of connectedness between diverse communities are forged. Relations and Networks in South African Indian Writing brings the experience of South African Indians to the fore, demonstrating how their search for identity is an integral part of the national scene's project of connectedness. By exploring how 'Indianness' is articulated in the South African national script through the works of contemporary South African Indian writers, such as Aziz Hassim, Ahmed Essop, Farida Karodia, Achmat Dangor, Shamim Sarif, Ronnie Govender, Rubendra Govender, Neelan Govender, Tholsi Mudly, Ashwin Singh, and Imraan Coovadia, along with the prison memoirists Dr Goonam and Fatima Meer, the book offers a theoretical model of South-South subjectivities that is deeply rooted in the Indian Ocean world and its cosmopolitanisms. Relations and Networks demonstrates convincingly the permeability of identity that is the marker of the Indian Ocean space, a space defined by 'relations and networks' established within and beyond ethnic, class, and gender categories. CONTRIBUTORS Isabel Alonso-Breto, M.J. Daymond, Felicity Hand, Salvador Faura, Farhad Khoyratty, Esther Pujolràs-Noguer, J. Coplen Rose, Modhumita Roy, Lindy Stiebel, Juan Miguel Zarandona
Note:
Front Matter --
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Contents /
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Acknowledgements /
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From Cane Cutters and Traders to Citizens and Writers /
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Planted Firmly in South African Soil /
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Daku or Dukan? /
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The Reception of Ahmed Essop in Spain /
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The Madman in the Garden /
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Transformation and Transnationalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa /
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At the Crossroads of Nowhere and Everywhere /
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What Memory Resists /
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Imraan Coovadia's Representation of the Ambiguities of Indian Identity in Pre- and Post-Apartheid Durban /
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The Limits of Unity in Ashwin Singh's To House /
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'Doing Time' /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Relations and networks in South African Indian writing Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, 2018 ISBN 9789004364967
Language:
English
