Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa /

Main Author: Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10555043
Table of 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".