Melancholia of freedom [electronic resource] : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen.
By: Hansen, Thomas Blom.
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BookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012Description: xv, 354 p.Subject(s): 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) -- ReligionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.891/41068455 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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