Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa /
The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habi...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2012]
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sj2k |
Table of Contents:
- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa
- Domesticity and cultural intimacy
- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition
- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech
- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city
- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires
- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives
- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief
- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality."