Eyes across the water : navigating the Indian Ocean / edited by Pamila Gupta, Isabel Hofmeyr, Michael Pearson.
| Uniform Title: | Indian Ocean series (Unisa Press)
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| Language: | English |
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Pretoria :
Unisa Press,
[2010], ©2010.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Indian Ocean series (Unisa Press)
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| Physical Description: | ix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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.