Reading Migration And Culture: The World Of East African Indian Literature Hardcover
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India
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Dan Ojwang
Book Description
This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism.
ISBN-10
1137262958
ISBN-13
9781137262950
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date
12 Jan 2013
About the Author
Dan Ojwang is Senior Lecturer of African Literature in the School of Literature and Language Studies at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published widely on East African Asian writing. His interests include literary cultures of the Indian Ocean world and contemporary African fiction.