Internal frontiers African nationalism and the Indian diaspora in twentieth-century South Africa
In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress's development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism. In so doing, Soske combines intellectual, political, religious, urban, and gender h...
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Johannesburg, Athens, Ohio
Wits University Press Ohio University Press
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | New African histories
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress's development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism. In so doing, Soske combines intellectual, political, religious, urban, and gender history to tell a story that is global in reach while remaining grounded in the everyday materiality of life under apartheid. Even as Indian independence provided black South African intellectuals with new models of conceptualizing sovereignty, debates over the place of the Indian diaspora in Africa (the "also-colonized other") forced a reconsideration of the nation's internal and external boundaries. In response to the traumas of Partition and the 1949 Durban Riots, a group of thinkers in the ANC, centered in the Indian Ocean city of Durban and led by ANC president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli, developed a new philosophy of nationhood that affirmed South Africa's simultaneously heterogeneous and fundamentally African character. Internal Frontiers is a major contribution to postcolonial and Indian Ocean studies and charts new ways of writing about African nationalism |
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| Beschreibung: | Introduction: The internal frontier of the nation state -- The racial crucible : economy, stereotype, and urban space in Durban -- Beyond the "native question" : Xuma, Lembede, and the event of Indian independence -- "That lightning that struck" : the 1949 Durban riots and the crisis in African nationalism -- The racial politics of home : sex, feminine virtue, and the boundaries of the nation -- The cosmopolitan moment : chief Albert Luthuli, the defiance campaign, and a new aesthetics of nation -- The Natal synthesis : inclusive nationalism and the unity of the ANC -- Epilogue |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 342 Seiten 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781776142101 9780821422830 9780821422847 |