(print) vii, 290 p. ; 24 cm

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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