Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa
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 habi...
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Princeton University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa -- Chapter 2: Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy -- Chapter 3: Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition -- Chapter 4: Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech -- Chapter 7: Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: Universalist Aspirations and Territorialized Lives -- Chapter 8: The Saved and the Backsliders: The Charou Soul and the Instability of Belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the “African Personality” -- Notes -- References -- Index.
- Front Matter Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: Ethnicity by Fiat: CHAPTER 2: Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy CHAPTER 3: Charous and Ravans: CHAPTER 4: Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech CHAPTER 5: Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City CHAPTER 6: The Unwieldy Fetish: CHAPTER 7: Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: CHAPTER 8: The Saved and the Backsliders: Postscript: Notes References Index
- Index Notes References Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the “African Personality” Chapter 8 The Saved and the Backsliders: The Charou Soul and the Instability of Belief Chapter 7: Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: Universalist Aspirations and Territorialized Lives Chapter 6: The Unwieldy Fetish: Desi Fantasies, Roots Tourism, and Diasporic Desires Chapter 5: Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City Chapter 4: Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech Chapter 3: Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition Chapter 2: Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy Chapter 1: Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa Introduction List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Title Page, Copyright Table of Contents Cover
- The Only Good Indian Is a Poor Indian: The ANC and the Indian Townships -- "All the Way": On the Ways of the Tiger -- From Tragedy to Comedy: Politics as a Form of Enjoyment -- Chapter 5: Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City -- The Steel Cages of Modernity -- Driving while Brown -- (Auto)mobility in the Postapartheid City -- Vehicular Vernacular: Visual and Sonic -- Taxis, Charou-Style -- Conclusion: "Indianness," African-Style -- Chapter 6: The Unwieldy Fetish: Desi Fantasies, Roots Tourism, and Diasporic Desires -- India as an Unwieldy Fetish -- The Spiritual Homeland -- Seeking Ancestral Roots -- Finding Spiritual Truth -- Catalysts of Modernity -- Global Desi Dreamscapes: The Revival of Bollywood in South Africa -- "What Does This Film Make of Me?" -- Plot Summary -- Who Are We Indians, After All? -- Diaspora and the Unwieldy Fetish -- Chapter 7: Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: Universalist Aspirations and Territorialized Lives -- Hinduism in Translation -- Religious Practices, Hindu Missionaries, and Cultural Purification -- A Nervous Relationship: Contemporary Hindu Practices in the Townships -- The Call of Global Hinduism -- Globalized Islam and the Impurities of the Past -- Muslim Durban -- Deculturation and the Invention of the Pure Muslim -- "Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz?" -- Da'wah in the Township -- Reaching for the Universal -- Chapter 8 The Saved and the Backsliders: The Charou Soul and the Instability of Belief -- The Fragility of the Charou Soul -- Signs of the Spirit -- Reconfiguring Patriarchy and Gendered Surveillance -- On Suits and Sermons -- Looking like Kentucky . . . -- Race, Gender, Body -- Between Vessel and Substance: On the Exteriority of the Soul -- Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the "African Personality" -- Notes -- References -- Index
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Under the Gaze: Freedom and Race after Apartheid -- Freedom and Sovereignty after Apartheid -- Melancholia of Freedom -- Between Irrelevance and Irreverence: "Our Culture" after Apartheid -- Structure of the Book -- Methods and Material -- Chapter 1: Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa -- The Asiatic Question -- The New Hygienic Indian -- Census et Censura -- The New Indian Social Body -- Policing the Internal Frontier -- Containing the Bush: Crime and Vigilantes in the Age of Democratic Policing -- Chapter 2: Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy -- From Kinship to Family -- The New Indian Woman and the Family House -- Tongues without Speech: Caste as Language Community -- "Our Culture" as Embarrassment -- Cultural Intimacy and Embarrassment: Charous and Lahnees -- Class and Charou Names -- Performing in the Gaze: The Indian Public Sphere -- Joke-Work on a Saturday Morning -- Comic Belief? Laughter and Cultural Intimacy -- Charou 4 Eva: Domesticity Lost and Refound -- Chapter 3: Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition -- AmaKula and amaZulu on the Colonial Estates -- Durban, January 1949: "The Largest Race Riot in the World" -- Cato Manor and the Urban Zulu -- The Indian "1949 Syndrome" as a Social Text -- The Syndrome Affirmed: Inanda 1985 -- Racism's Two Bodies -- Racial Practice, Indian-Style -- Africans at Our Doorsteps -- Somatic Anxieties -- Nonrecognition and the Elusive Master -- Chapter 4: Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech -- Local Affairs and the Problem of Indian Speech -- The House of Delhigoats -- "Scandals Are the Foundations of the State" -- Who Speaks for the Community? The Particular as Universalist Gesture
- 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.
- Chapter 3. Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition
- Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the “African Personality”
- Illustrations
- Chapter 5. Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City
- Chapter 2. Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy
- Chapter 4. Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech
- Index
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
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- Contents
- Chapter 7. Global Hindus and Pure Muslims
- Introduction
- Chapter 8. The Saved and the Backsliders
- References
- Frontmatter --
- Chapter 6. The Unwieldy Fetish
- Chapter 1. Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa
- Notes