TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ojwang,Dan
TI  - Reading migration and culture in context: the world of East African Indian literature 
SN  - 9781137262950
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - East African literature
KW  - Minority authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Folk literature, African
KW  - South Asian diaspora
KW  - South Asians
KW  - Africa, East
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Literatura africana
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Literatura africana (Inglés)
KW  - Emigration and immigration
N1  - Índice; Bibliografía: p. 207-241
N2  - Reading Migration and Culture locates itself within the recent preoccupation in literary studies with modernity, migration and diaspora, and the theories that are deployed in trying to account for them. Its central argument is that 'global' readings of migration in relation to a general 'postcolonial condition' elides local referents of history, social life and geography. East African Asians, a term used to refer to people of sub-continental Indian descent in the region, occupy an important, yet often neglected role, in the history of the former British Empire. Unlike their counterparts in the Caribbean, Fiji and South Africa, they have had a closer connection to the India, which has been an important focus of their imagination. This book examines the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature against the categories that have evolved for conceptualizing diaspora, especially within postcolonial studies. Its focus is on the cultural codes that diasporic East African Asians have forged in an attempt to come to terms with a history of dislocation and how those codes find form in writing. In probing these issues, it opens up larger questions of alienation, domesticity, material culture, gastropolitics, memory, nationalism and the allegorical construction of gender and sexuality
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