Reading migration and culture in context : the world of East African Indian literature / Dan Ojwang

Por: Ojwang, DanTipo de material: TextoTextoDetalles de publicación: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 Descripción: IX, 245 p.; 22 cmISBN: 9781137262950Tema(s): East African literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism | Folk literature, African -- History and criticism | South Asian diaspora | South Asians -- Africa, East -- Social conditions | Africa, East -- Emigration and immigration | Literatura africana -- Historia y crítica | Literatura africana (Inglés) -- Historia y críticaResumen: 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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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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