Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen.

Author/creator Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoJohannesburg: Wits University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxv, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Subjects
East Indians--South Africa. --Durban.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Race relations.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Social conditions.
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa)--Religion.
Durban (South Africa)--Race relations.
Durban (South Africa)--Social conditions.
Durban (South Africa)--Religion.

Contents Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- 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."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012526789
ISBN9780691152950 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0691152950 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780691152967 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0691152969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9781868145898
ISBN1868145891
Standard identifier# 40021149793

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