Afrindian Fictions : Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa /
"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: Diasp...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2008]
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Table of 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.