Acknowledgements VII
Notes on Contributors VIII
1
From Cane Cutters and Traders to Citizens and Writers 1
Felicity Hand and Esther Pujolràs-Noguer
2
Planted Firmly in South African Soil: Literary Recollections of Indenture 15
Lindy Stiebel
3
Daku or Dukan? Surviving within and without the Indian Community of Durban 37
Felicity Hand
4
The Reception of Ahmed Essop in Spain: Or, the Race Factor in the Comparative Literary Reception of Contemporary South African Writers in Spain 56
Juan Miguel Zarandona
5
The Madman in the Garden: Or, Achmat Dangor’s Search for the Common Literary Origins of the Distinct Muslim Communities of South Africa in Kafka’s Curse (1997) 75
Salvador Faura
6
Transformation and Transnationalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Farida Karodia’s Boundaries (2003) 88
Isabel Alonso-Breto
7
At the Crossroads of Nowhere and Everywhere: Home, Nation, and Space in Shamim Sarif’s The World Unseen 107
Esther Pujolràs-Noguer
8
What Memory Resists: Indenture, Apartheid, and the ‘Memory-Work’ of Reconstruction in Ronnie Govender’s Black Chin, White Chin 122
Modhumita Roy
9
Imraan Coovadia’s Representation of the Ambiguities of Indian Identity in Pre- and Post-Apartheid Durban: The Wedding (2001) and High Low In-between (2009) 138
M.J. Daymond
10
The Limits of Unity in Ashwin Singh’s To House: Food, South African Indian Ethnicity, and Drama from Durban 153
J. Coplen Rose
11
‘Doing Time’: Temporal Disruptions in Dr. Goonam’s and Fatima Meer’s Prison Experiences 178
Farhad Khoyratty
Index 199