Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Subjects:	East Indians > South Africa > Durban. Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) > Race relations. Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) > Social conditions. Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) > Religion. Durban (South Africa) > Race relations. Durban (South Africa) > Social conditions. Durban (South Africa) > Religion.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid
Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa
Domesticity and cultural intimacy
Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition
Autonomy, freedom, and political speech
Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city
The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires
Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives
The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief
Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality."