Eyes across the water
Subtitle: navigating the Indian Ocean
By: edited by Pamila Gupta, Isabel Hofmeyr, Michael Pearson
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Indian Ocean series; Indian Ocean series (Unisa Press)
Publisher: Unisa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781868885725
Subjects: History; Literatures; Strategic aspects; Relations; History and criticism
Description: "World attention is increasingly turning towards the region of the Indian Ocean as the coming strategic arena of the 21st century. India and China, the new economic superpowers, exert palpable global influence while also seeking control of shipping lanes and oil supplies, as well as a dominance in African markets and minerals. Al-Qaida continues to operate around the Indian Ocean littoral in Tanzania, Kenya, Comoros, Indonesia, and Yemen. The audacious Somali pirates astound international media audiences. As an arena in which these developments intersect, the Indian Ocean offers a privileged vantage point from which to track a changing world order. This collection of essays captures the complexities of these emerging Indian Ocean realities. What are the links, circuits, and exchanges that both unite and divide different regions? How does one factor Africa into this Ocean world? The essays offer rich interdisciplinary perspectives and examine the interactions between Africa and India." -- Publisher's information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Pamila Gupta; title: The idea of the ocean / Michael Pearson; title: Of fanás and forecastles: the Indian Ocean and some lost languages of the age of sail / Amitav Ghosh; title: Connecting the littorals: cultural brokers in the early modern Indian Ocean / Michael Pearson; title: Community, nation, diaspora and the public sphere in the Indian Ocean / Lakshmi Subramanian; title: What makes a carpet fly?: cultural studies in the Indian Ocean / Stephen Muecke; title: In search of cosmopolitan discourse: a historical journey across the Indian Ocean from Singapore to South Africa, 1870-1920 / Mark Ravinder Frost; title: Africa as a fault line in the Indian Ocean / Isabel Hofmeyr; title: The unwieldy fetish: desire and disavowal of Indianness in South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen; title: The South African Indian film industry: new directions in Indian commercial and diasporic cinema / Stefanie Lotter; title: Memory, migrancy and modernity in M.H. Vassanji's The gunny sack and The book of secrets / Dan Ojwang; title: 'Africa's appendix': distortion, forgery and superfluity on a southern littoral / Ashraf Jamal; title: The role of Africa in the emergence of the 'Indian Ocean world' global economy / Gwyn Campbell; title: Navigating the difference: gender, miscegenation and Indian domestic space in twentieth-century Durban / Jon Soske; title: Transnational spaces: Islam and the interaction of Indian and African identity strategies in South Africa during and after apartheid / Preben Kaarsholm; title: A diffused history of race: the Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean / Rochelle Pinto; title: Oceanic charades: the female figures of M.K. Jeffreys's Passage to India / Meg Samuleson; title: Island-ness in the Indian Ocean / Pamila Gupta; title: Islands in the (global) stream: the case of Mauritius and Seychelles / Rosabelle Boswell; title: Cultural accommodations through clothing, religion and language among South Asians in La Réunion / Christian Ghasrian; title: A history of cultural negation in Indian Ocean literature: Julia Blackburn's The book of color and Lindsey Collen's The rape of Sita / Ronit Frenkel; title: Cultivating human gardens: tropical island tourism in the South-Western Indian Ocean / David Picard; title: Grieving islands: history, memory and the Chagossian tragedy / Srilata Ravi; title: The limits of detection in Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason / Michael Titlestad.