Reading Migration and Culture: The World of East African Indian Literature

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This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137262950
ISBN-10: 1137262958
Pagini: 245
Ilustrații: IX, 245 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:2013
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Note on Usage Introduction: Introduction The Pleasures and Tribulations of Migration Indian Ocean Travel and Belonging in Nanji Kalidas Mehta's Dream Half-Expressed Gastropolitics and Diasporic Self-Writing Images of Africa and the Making of 'Asian' Identities Gender, Sexuality and Community Miscegenation and Culture Romancing Decolonization Memory, Metafiction and Modernity Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Notă biografică

Dan Ojwang is Senior Lecturer of African Literature in the School of Literature and Language Studies at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published widely on East African Asian writing. His interests include literary cultures of the Indian Ocean world and contemporary African fiction.

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