Eyes across the water : navigating the Indian Ocean. - Gupta, Pamila; Hofmeyr, Isabel; Pearson, M. N. (Michael Naylor) (Pretoria : Unisa Press, 2010)
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.
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Keywords: Indian Ocean Region; Indian Ocean Region -- Strategic aspects; Indian Ocean Region -- Literatures -- History and criticism; Indian Ocean Region -- Relations -- Africa