ISBN:
9781868885725
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 396 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. ed., 1. impr.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Gottschlich, Pierre, 1977 - [Rezension von: Judith Brown, Global South Asians] Freiburg : Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut für Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung, 2007
Series Statement:
Indian Ocean series
DDC:
909.09824
Keywords:
Kongress
;
Johannesburg 〈2007〉
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
Indian Ocean Region History
;
Indian Ocean Region Strategic aspects
;
Indian Ocean Region Literatures
;
History and criticism
;
Indian Ocean Region Relations
;
Africa Relations
;
Konferenzschrift 2007
;
Indischer Ozean
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Pamila Gupta -- The idea of the ocean / Michael Pearson -- Of fanás and forecastles: the Indian Ocean and some lost languages of the age of sail / Amitav Ghosh -- Connecting the littorals: cultural brokers in the early modern Indian Ocean / Michael Pearson -- Community, nation, diaspora and the public sphere in the Indian Ocean / Lakshmi Subramanian -- What makes a carpet fly?: cultural studies in the Indian Ocean / Stephen Muecke -- In search of cosmopolitan discourse: a historical journey across the Indian Ocean from Singapore to South Africa, 1870-1920 / Mark Ravinder Frost -- Africa as a fault line in the Indian Ocean / Isabel Hofmeyr -- The unwieldy fetish: desire and disavowal of Indianness in South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen -- The South African Indian film industry: new directions in Indian commercial and diasporic cinema / Stefanie Lotter -- Memory, migrancy and modernity in M.H. Vassanji's "The gunny sack and the book of secrets" / Dan Ojwang -- "Africa's appendix": distortion, forgery and superfluity on a southern littoral / Ashraf Jamal -- The role of Africa in the emergence of the "Indian Ocean world" global economy / Gwyn Campbell -- Navigating the difference: gender, miscegenation and Indian domestic space in twentieth-century Durban / Jon Soske -- Transnational spaces: Islam and the interaction of Indian and African identity strategies in South Africa during and after apartheid / Preben Kaarsholm -- A diffused history of race: the Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean / Rochelle Pinto -- Oceanic charades: the female figures of M.K. Jeffreys's passage to India / Meg Samuleson -- Island-ness in the Indian Ocean / Pamila Gupta -- Islands in the (global) stream: the case of Mauritius and Seychelles / Rosabelle Boswell -- Cultural accommodations through clothing, religion and language among South Asians in La Réunion / Christian Ghasrian -- A history of cultural negation in Indian Ocean literature: Julia Blackburn's "The book of color" and Lindsey Collen's "The rape of Sita" / Ronit Frenkel -- Cultivating human gardens: tropical island tourism in the South-Western Indian Ocean / David Picard -- Grieving islands: history, memory and the Chagossian tragedy / Srilata Ravi -- The limits of detection in Amitav Ghosh's "The circle of reason" / Michael Titlestad.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Pamila Gupta -- The idea of the ocean / Michael Pearson -- Of fanás and forecastles: the Indian Ocean and some lost languages of the age of sail / Amitav Ghosh -- Connecting the littorals: cultural brokers in the early modern Indian Ocean / Michael Pearson -- Community, nation, diaspora and the public sphere in the Indian Ocean / Lakshmi Subramanian -- What makes a carpet fly?: cultural studies in the Indian Ocean / Stephen Muecke -- In search of cosmopolitan discourse: a historical journey across the Indian Ocean from Singapore to South Africa, 1870-1920 / Mark Ravinder Frost -- Africa as a fault line in the Indian Ocean / Isabel Hofmeyr -- The unwieldy fetish: desire and disavowal of Indianness in South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen -- The South African Indian film industry: new directions in Indian commercial and diasporic cinema / Stefanie Lotter -- Memory, migrancy and modernity in M.H. Vassanji's "The gunny sack and the book of secrets" / Dan Ojwang -- "Africa's appendix": distortion, forgery and superfluity on a southern littoral / Ashraf Jamal -- The role of Africa in the emergence of the "Indian Ocean world" global economy / Gwyn Campbell -- Navigating the difference: gender, miscegenation and Indian domestic space in twentieth-century Durban / Jon Soske -- Transnational spaces: Islam and the interaction of Indian and African identity strategies in South Africa during and after apartheid / Preben Kaarsholm -- A diffused history of race: the Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean / Rochelle Pinto -- Oceanic charades: the female figures of M.K. Jeffreys's passage to India / Meg Samuleson -- Island-ness in the Indian Ocean / Pamila Gupta -- Islands in the (global) stream: the case of Mauritius and Seychelles / Rosabelle Boswell -- Cultural accommodations through clothing, religion and language among South Asians in La Réunion / Christian Ghasrian -- A history of cultural negation in Indian Ocean literature: Julia Blackburn's "The book of color" and Lindsey Collen's "The rape of Sita" / Ronit Frenkel -- Cultivating human gardens: tropical island tourism in the South-Western Indian Ocean / David Picard -- Grieving islands: history, memory and the Chagossian tragedy / Srilata Ravi -- The limits of detection in Amitav Ghosh's "The circle of reason" / Michael Titlestad
Note:
Auch angezeigt u.d.T.: Eyes across the world
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