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navigating the Indian Ocean

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navigating the Indian Ocean

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Unisa Press
Language
English
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396

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Pretoria
Series
Indian Ocean series, Indian Ocean series (Unisa Press)

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Library of Congress
DS335 .E96 2010, DS335.E96 2010, DT365.18 .E9 2010

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Pagination
ix, 396 p. :
Number of pages
396

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24822239M
ISBN 13
9781868885725
LCCN
2010549034
OCLC/WorldCat
644657411

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