Afrindian Fictions : Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa / Pallavi Rastogi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2008]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©[2008]Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780814271810
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Contents:
Are Indians Africans too, or : when does a subcontinental become a citizen? -- Indians in short : collectivity versus specificity in the Apartheid story -- Essop's Fables : straregic Indianness, political occasion, and the Grand Old Man of South African Indian literature -- National longing, natural belonging : flux and rootedness in Achmat Dangor's Kafka's curse -- The point of return : backward glances in Farida Karodia's Other Secrets -- Lost in transplantation : recovering the history of Indian arrival in south Africa -- Citizen other : the implosion of racial harmony in postapartheid South Africa -- New directions or same old? Afrindian identity and fiction today -- Interviews : Deena Padayachee ; Ahmed Essop ; Farida Karodia ; Praba Moodley ; Aziz Hassim ; Bonnie Govender.
Review: "In the first published book-length study of Indian fiction in South Africa, Pallavi Rastogi demonstrates that Indians desire South African citizenship in the fullest sense of the word, a longing for inclusion that is asserted through an "Afrindian" identity. Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa examines Afrindian identity and blurs the racial binary of black and white interaction in South African studies as well as unsettles the East-West paradigm of migration dominant in South Asian diaspora studies." "Afrindian Fictions is a valuable introduction to South African Indian literature as well as a major interrogation of some of the foundational notions of postcolonial literary studies."--Jacket
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Are Indians Africans too, or : when does a subcontinental become a citizen? -- Indians in short : collectivity versus specificity in the Apartheid story -- Essop's Fables : straregic Indianness, political occasion, and the Grand Old Man of South African Indian literature -- National longing, natural belonging : flux and rootedness in Achmat Dangor's Kafka's curse -- The point of return : backward glances in Farida Karodia's Other Secrets -- Lost in transplantation : recovering the history of Indian arrival in south Africa -- Citizen other : the implosion of racial harmony in postapartheid South Africa -- New directions or same old? Afrindian identity and fiction today -- Interviews : Deena Padayachee ; Ahmed Essop ; Farida Karodia ; Praba Moodley ; Aziz Hassim ; Bonnie Govender.

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"In the first published book-length study of Indian fiction in South Africa, Pallavi Rastogi demonstrates that Indians desire South African citizenship in the fullest sense of the word, a longing for inclusion that is asserted through an "Afrindian" identity. Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa examines Afrindian identity and blurs the racial binary of black and white interaction in South African studies as well as unsettles the East-West paradigm of migration dominant in South Asian diaspora studies." "Afrindian Fictions is a valuable introduction to South African Indian literature as well as a major interrogation of some of the foundational notions of postcolonial literary studies."--Jacket

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