Narrating the New Nation: South African Indian Writing

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Resilience in Diaspora Writings of the Indian Community in South Africa (Rajendra Chetty / Jaspal Kaur Singh)
Chapter One: Ethical versus Ethnic Pre-eminence: The Centrality of South African Indian Writing (Rajendra Chetty)
Chapter Two: Excavating Cultural Memories: Social Justice and Social Change in Fatima Meer and Sita Gandhi’s Texts (Jaspal Kaur Singh)
Chapter Three: Black Lives Matter: The Significance of Fatima Meer’s Prison Diary (Rajendra Chetty)
Chapter Four: Diaspora and Imperialism: An Analysis of Ronnie Govender’s The Lahnee’s Pleasure (Rajendra Chetty)
Chapter Five: Apartheid and Postapartheid Literary Imagination in Ahmed Essop’s Fiction (Jaspal Kaur Singh)
Chapter Six: The Global North and South: Comparative Postcolonial Poetics in Diasporic South Asian Women’s Texts (Jaspal Kaur Singh)
Chapter Seven: Representing Durban in South African Indian Writing (Rajendra Chetty)
Chapter Eight: From the Individual to the Collective: Acts of Resistance and Social Transformation in Pregs Govender’s Love and Courage: A Story of Insubordination (Jaspal Kaur Singh)
Chapter Nine: Queering South Asian Indian Diaspora: Theories and Intersectionalities (Jaspal Kaur Singh)