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Author:   Jaspal K. Singh ,  Rajendra Chetty
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781433130120

ISBN 10:   1433130122
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   27 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments – Rajendra Chetty and Jaspal Kaur Singh – Introduction: Resilience in Diaspora Writings of the Indian Community in South Africa – Rajendra Chetty: Ethical versus Ethnic Pre-eminence: The Centrality of South African Indian Writing – Jaspal Kaur Singh: Excavating Cultural Memories: Social Justice and Social Change in Fatima Meer and Sita Gandhi’s Texts – Rajendra Chetty: Black Lives Matter: The Significance of Fatima Meer’s Prison Diary – Rajendra Chetty: Diaspora and Imperialism: An Analysis of Ronnie Govender’s The Lahnee’s Pleasure – Jaspal Kaur Singh: Apartheid and Postapartheid Literary Imagination in Ahmed Essop’s Fiction – Jaspal Kaur Singh: The Global North and South: Comparative Postcolonial Poetics in Diasporic South Asian Women’s Texts – Rajendra Chetty: Representing Durban in South African Indian Writing – Jaspal Kaur Singh: 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: Queering South Asian Indian Diaspora: Theories and Intersectionalities.

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Jaspal Kaur Singh is Professor of English Literature at Northern Michigan University. Her publications include a monograph, Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women’s Texts at Home and in the Diaspora, and three co-edited books, Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey; Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas; and Trauma,Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing. Rajendra Chetty is Professor of Language Education at the University of the Western Cape. His publications include a literary biography, At the Edge: The Writings of Ronnie Govender, two books, The Vintage Book of South African Indian Writing and South African Indian Writings in English, and three co-edited books, Indias Abroad: The Diaspora Writes Back; Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas; and Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing.

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