At the Edge: The Writings of Ronnie Govender

ISBN-13: 9781433146411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 176 str.

Rajendra Chetty

Opis

This book invites the reader to connect and contrast Govender with a range of contexts and intertextualities-from post-colonial to African continental, from the diasporic to the politically analogous.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Introduction - Resistance and Reconciliation: Post-1994 South African Indian Writings - Transactional Memory in At the Edge and other Cato Manor Stories - Beyond Calvary: I Did It for My God - Over My Dead Body: Dispossession and Relocation - 'Poobathie'-Colour, Caste and Religion - '1949'-Race and the Colonial Agenda - Ayakanoo: Bucket Carrier - The Lahnee's Pleasure: Revisiting the Crime Scene - Coolitude, Indenture and 'Swami' - Interview with Ronnie Govender - Conclusion.

O autorze

Rajendra Chetty is a leading postcolonial scholar and has written extensively on commonwealth literature; critical pedagogy; and race, class and marginalization. His seminal works include South African Indian Writings in English (2002) and the Vintage Book of South African Indian Writings (2010). His co-edited works include Indias Abroad: The Diaspora Writes Back (2005); Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diaspora (2009); and Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing (2010). He is the President of the English Academy of Southern Africa, was awarded the Fulbright visiting professor scholarship to the USA in 2015 and received the 2016 Medal of Honour from the South African Education Association for his research.