Reconsiderations
Subtitle: South African Indian fiction and the making of race in postcolonial culture
By: Ronit Frenkel
Publisher: Unisa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781868885480
Subjects: South African fiction (English); East Indian authors; Group identity in literature; East Indian diaspora in literature; History and criticism; East Indians in literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-160) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Reconsidering current theory: Ishtiyaq Shukri's The silent minaret and 'South Africa in the global imaginary'; title: Writing South Africa in diaspora: Imraan Coovadia's The wedding and Shamin Sarif's The world unseen; title: Performing race, reconsidering history: Achmat Dangor's recent fiction; title: Ordinary secrets and the bounds of memory: traversing the TRC in Farida  Karodia's Other secrets and Beverley Naidoo's Out of bounds; title: Reconsidering late apartheid literature: the short stories of Agnes Sam and Jayapraga Reddy; title: Conclusion: reconsidering; title: Appendix: brief historical chronology from colonialism onwards.