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Reading Migration and Culture

The World of East African Indian Literature

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  • © 2013

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  1. Dan Ojwang
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Pleasures and Tribulations of Migration

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 21-45

  4. Indian Ocean Travel and Belonging in Nanji Kalidas Mehta’s Dream Half-Expressed

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 46-63

  5. Gastropolitics and Diasporic Self-Writing

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 64-84

  6. Imaging Africa, Making “Asians”

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 85-103

  7. Gender, Sexuality and Community

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 104-130

  8. Miscegenation and Culture

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 131-157

  9. Romancing Decolonization

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 158-173

  10. Memory, Metafiction and Modernity

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 174-200

  11. Conclusion

    • Dan Ojwang
    Pages 201-206

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 207-245
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About this book

This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism.

About the author

Dan Ojwang is Senior Lecturer of African Literature in the School of Literature and Language Studies at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published widely on East African Asian writing. His interests include literary cultures of the Indian Ocean world and contemporary African fiction.

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