Relations and networks in South African Indian writing / / edited by Felicity Hand, Esther Pujolras-Noguer.

Writers of Indian origin seldom appear in the South African literary landscape, although the participation of Indian South Africans in the anti-apartheid struggle was anything but insignificant. The collective experiences of violence and the plea for reconciliation that punctuate the rhythms of post...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures ; Volume 203
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; Volume 203.
Physical Description:1 online resource (215 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • From cane cutters and traders to citizens and writers / Felicity Hand and Esther Pujolras-Noguer
  • Planted firmly in South African soil: literary recollections of indenture / Lindy Stiebel
  • Daku or dukan? surviving within and without the Indian community of Durban / Felicity Hand
  • The reception of Ahmed Essop in Spain: or, the race factor in the compared literary reception of contemporary South African writers in Spain / Juan Miguel Zarandona
  • The madman in the garden: or, Achmat Dangor's search for the common literary origins of the distinct Muslim communities of South Africa in Kafka's curse (1997) / Salvador Faura
  • Transformation and transnationalism in post-apartheid South Africa: Farida Karodia's Boundaries (2003) / Isabel Alonso-Breto
  • At the crossroads of nowhere and everywhere: home, nation, and space in Shamim Sarif's The world unseen / Esther Pujolras-Noguer
  • What memory resists: indenture, apartheid, and the 'memory-work' of reconstruction in Ronnie Govender's Black chin, white chin / Modhumita Roy.