Melancholia of freedom
Subtitle: social life in an Indian township in South Africa
By: Thomas Blom Hansen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691152950; 9780691152967
Subjects: Social conditions; Religion; Race relations; East Indians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid; title: Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa; title: Domesticity and cultural intimacy; title: Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition; title: Autonomy, freedom, and political speech; title: Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city; title: The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires; title: Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives; title: The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief; title: Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality".