India and South Africa

Informationen zum Autor Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand and Visiting Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.Javed Majeed is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at King's College London. Zusammenfassung South Africa and India constitute two key nodes in the global south and have inspired new modes of non-Western transnational history. This volume extends these debates into the cultural terrain offering innovative comparative and connective methods. This book was published as a special issue of African Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: India and South Africa – Comparisons, Confluences, Contrasts 2. Gandhi, Carpenter, Schreiner and the Crisis of Modern Civilisation at the Turn of the 20th Century 3. Gandhi and Socrates 4. English in India and South Africa: Comparisons, Commonalities and Contrasts 5. Dil Maange More: Cultural Contexts of Hinglish in Contemporary India 6. ‘A State of Affairs which is Essentially Indefinite’: The Linguistic Survey of India (1894–1927) 7. Performing History and Constructing ‘Culture’: Ronnie Govender’s 1949 and the Romanticism of Historical Memory

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Javed Hofmeyr Majeed
• Mitarbeit: Isabel Hofmeyr (Herausgeber), Hofmeyr Isabel (Herausgeber), Javed Majeed (Herausgeber), Majeed Javed (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 17.03.2016
• EAN: 9781138182837
• ISBN: 978-1-138-18283-7
• Seiten: 102
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Republic of South Africa, Social and cultural anthropology