Melancholia of freedom [ social life in an Indian township in South Africa
Offers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticat...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press ,
c2012
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| Online Access: | http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/PUPB0001558/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa
- 2. Domesticity and cultural intimacy
- 3. Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition
- 4. Autonomy, freedom, and political speech
- 5. Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city
- 6. The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires
- 7. Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives
- 8. The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief