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Author Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- author.

Title Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 354 pages)
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents 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."
Summary The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Du
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Credits Jacket art: Unit 3 © Riason Naidoo. Courtesy of the Durban Art Gallery/South Africa
Notes Print version record
Subject East Indians -- South Africa -- Durban
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
East Indians
Race relations
Religion
Social conditions
SUBJECT 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
Subject South Africa -- Durban
South Africa -- Durban -- Chatsworth
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011041406
ISBN 9781400842612
1400842611
0691152950
9780691152950
0691152969
9780691152967