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020			_a9781433130120 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aPR9358.2.I54 _bS56 2018
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100	1		_aSingh, Jaspal Kaur, _d1951- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNarrating the new nation : _bSouth African Indian writing / _cJaspal K. Singh and Rajendra Chetty.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPeter Lang Publishing, _c[2018]
300			_aviii, 167 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aEthical versus ethnic pre-eminence : the centrality of South African Indian writing / Rajendra Chetty -- Excavating cultural memories : social justice and social change in Fatima Meer's and Sita Gandhi's texts / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Black lives matter : the significance of Fatima Meer's Prison diary / Rajendra Chetty -- Diaspora and imperialism : an analysis of Ronnie Govender's The lahnee's pleasure / Rajendra Chetty -- Apartheid and postapartheid literary imagination in Ahmed Essop's texts / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- The global North and South : comparative postcolonial poetics in diasporic South representing Durban in South African Indian writings / Rajendra Chetty -- From the individual to the collective : acts of resistance for social transformation in Pregs Govender's Love and courage: a story of insubordination / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Queering South Asian Indian diaspora : theoretical underpinnings and historical and cultural contexts / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Religion and sexuality : queering South Asian Indian diaspora in South African fiction and testimonials / Jaspal Kaur Singh.
520			_aThe purpose of Narrating the New Nation is to engage with South African Indian writings through a critical examination of the oeuvre of key writers within a postcolonial theoretical framework. With the advent of democracy, South Africa has witnessed new writings which either reflected on apartheid with elements of restoration for past atrocities and centered around reflective nostalgia, or looked ahead with optimism and foregrounded new beginnings. The end of the interregnum in 1994 drove people to narrate the relationship between past, present and future, which revealed an exciting diversity and rituals of bourgeois lives or reflected upon disadvantaged and marginalized homes in townships, casbahs and ghettos. These innovative narratives attempt to conquer and spatialize different histories, while at the same time finding creative ways to assemble shattered fragments of memory. A critical question this study asks is whether South African literature continues to address themes of journey, exile, migration and identity within the major concern of place and displacement in apartheid and post-apartheid South African Indian writing, or whether the new writings foreground critical self-awareness as citizens of a democratic and neo-colonial nation-state. What analytical questions and concerns do new writings from the Global South address? This book of critical essays hopes to endorse social and cultural―race, class, gender, sexuality―analysis, problematize them, expand them, and in the end enrich South African literature. In so doing, the authors attempt to encourage a critical, creative and empowering space for a plurality of voices, minds and stories and hope to reveal how literature involves itself in the unfinished business of the collective in South African history and literature.
650		0	_aSouth African literature (English) _xEast Indian authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aSouth African literature (English) _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEast Indian diaspora in literature.
650		0	_aRace in literature.
700	1		_aChetty, Rajendra, _eauthor.
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