Afrindian fictions: diaspora, race, and national desire in South Africa

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Subjects (LCSH):
South African fiction (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticismSouth African fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
South African fiction (English) -- East Indian authors -- History and criticism
East Indians -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life
East Indian diaspora in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Group identity in literature
Keywords:
literary criticism -- Africanliterary criticism -- Asian -- Indian
Social Science
Ethnic Studies
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Issue Date:
2008Metadata
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The Ohio State University PressDescription:
(print) vii, 290 p. ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction Are Indians Africans too, or : when does a subcontinental become a citizen? p. 1 -- Ch. 1 Indians in short : collectivity versus specificity in the apartheid story p. 23 -- Ch. 2 Essop's fables : strategic Indianness, political occasion, and the grand old man of South African Indian literature p. 47 -- Ch. 3 National longing, natural belonging : flux and rootedness in Achmat Dangor's Kafka's curse p. 70 -- Ch. 4 The point of return : backward glances in Farida Karodia's Other secrets p. 92 -- Ch. 5 Lost in transplantation : recovering the history of Indian arrival in South Africa p. 114 -- Ch. 6 Citizen other : the implosion of racial harmony in postapartheid South Africa p. 138
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Item embargoed for five years
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BookISBN:
9780814203194 (print)814203191 (print)
Other Identifiers:
OCLC #199453801 (print)LCCN 2008006183 (print)
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