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Author:
Frenkel, Ronit.
Title:
Reconsiderations : South African Indian fiction and the making of race in postcolonial culture / Ronit Frenkel.
Publisher:
Unisa Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
viii, 165 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
South African fiction (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Group identity in literature.
East Indian diaspora in literature.
East Indians in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-160) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Reconsidering current theory: Ishtiyaq Shukri's The silent minaret and 'South Africa in the global imaginary' -- Writing South Africa in diaspora: Imraan Coovadia's The wedding and Shamin Sarif's The world unseen -- Performing race, reconsidering history: Achmat Dangor's recent fiction -- Ordinary secrets and the bounds of memory: traversing the TRC in Farida Karodia's Other secrets and Beverley Naidoo's Out of bounds -- Reconsidering late apartheid literature: the short stories of Agnes Sam and Jayapraga Reddy -- Conclusion: reconsidering -- Appendix: brief historical chronology from colonialism onwards.
ISBN:
1868885488
9781868885480
OCLC:
(OCoLC)644657418
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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