Narrating the New Nation; South African Indian Writing

ISBN-13: 9781433130120 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 168 str.

Jaspal K. Singh; Rajendra Chetty

Opis

The purpose of Narrating the New Nation is to engage with South African Indian writings through a critical examination of the oeuvre of key writers within a postcolonial theoretical framework.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Rajendra Chetty and Jaspal Kaur Singh - Introduction: Resilience in Diaspora Writings of the Indian Community in South Africa - Rajendra Chetty: Ethical versus Ethnic Pre-eminence: The Centrality of South African Indian Writing - Jaspal Kaur Singh: Excavating Cultural Memories: Social Justice and Social Change in Fatima Meer and Sita Gandhi's Texts - Rajendra Chetty: Black Lives Matter: The Significance of Fatima Meer's Prison Diary - Rajendra Chetty: Diaspora and Imperialism: An Analysis of Ronnie Govender's The Lahnee's Pleasure - Jaspal Kaur Singh: Apartheid and Postapartheid Literary Imagination in Ahmed Essop's Fiction - Jaspal Kaur Singh: The Global North and South: Comparative Postcolonial Poetics in Diasporic South Asian Women's Texts - Rajendra Chetty: Representing Durban in South African Indian Writing - Jaspal Kaur Singh: From the Individual to the Collective: Acts of Resistance and Social Transformation in Pregs Govender's Love and Courage: A Story of Insubordination - Jaspal Kaur Singh: Queering South Asian Indian Diaspora: Theories and Intersectionalities.

O autorze

Jaspal Kaur Singh is Professor of English Literature at Northern Michigan University. Her publications include a monograph, Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora, and three co-edited books, Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey; Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas; and Trauma,Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing.

Rajendra Chetty is Professor of Language Education at the University of the Western Cape. His publications include a literary biography, At the Edge: The Writings of Ronnie Govender, two books, The Vintage Book of South African Indian Writing and South African Indian Writings in English, and three co-edited books, Indias Abroad: The Diaspora Writes Back; Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas; and Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing.