Relations and Networks in South African Indian Writing

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Notes on Contributors

1 From Cane Cutters and Traders to Citizens and Writers

2 Planted Firmly in South African Soil: Literary Recollections of Indenture

3 Daku or Dukan?: Surviving within and without the Indian Community of Durban

4 The Reception of Ahmed Essop in Spain: Or, the Race Factor in the Comparative Literary Reception of Contemporary South African Writers in Spain

5 The Madman in the Garden: Or, Achmat Dangor’s Search for the Common Literary Origins of the Distinct Muslim Communities of South Africa in Kafka’s Curse (1997)

6 Transformation and Transnationalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Farida Karodia’s Boundaries (2003)

7 At the Crossroads of Nowhere and Everywhere: Home, Nation, and Space in Shamim Sarif’s The World Unseen

8 What Memory Resists: Indenture, Apartheid, and the ‘Memory-Work’ of Reconstruction in Ronnie Govender’s Black Chin, White Chin

9 Imraan Coovadia’s Representation of the Ambiguities of Indian Identity in Pre- and Post-Apartheid Durban: The Wedding (2001) and High Low In-between (2009)

10 The Limits of Unity in Ashwin Singh’s To House: Food, South African Indian Ethnicity, and Drama from Durban

11 ‘Doing Time’: Temporal Disruptions in Dr. Goonam’s and Fatima Meer’s Prison Experiences

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