Afrindian fictions
Subtitle: diaspora, race, and national desire in South Africa
By: Pallavi Rastogi.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780814203194
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism; South African fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; South African fiction (English) -- East Indian authors -- History and criticism; East Indians -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life; East Indian diaspora in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Group identity in literature
Description: "In the first published book-length study of Indian fiction in South Africa, Pallavi Rastogi demonstrates that Indians desire South African citizenship in the fullest sense of the word, a longing for inclusion that is asserted through an "Afrindian" identity. Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa examines Afrindian identity and blurs the racial binary of black and white interaction in South African studies as well as unsettles the East-West paradigm of migration dominant in South Asian diaspora studies." "Afrindian Fictions is a valuable introduction to South African Indian literature as well as a major interrogation of some of the foundational notions of postcolonial literary studies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.