Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa / [electronic resource] :
Thomas Blom Hansen.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
- xv, 354 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality".
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East Indians--South Africa--Durban.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Race relations. Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Social conditions. Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Religion. Durban (South Africa)--Race relations. Durban (South Africa)--Social conditions. Durban (South Africa)--Religion.