Utopian envisioning: politics of belonging and the emergence of the first Indian South African and East African novels.
The article examines the deployment utopianism in Ansuyah Singh’sBehold the Earth Mourns[Singh, Ansuyah R. 1960.Behold the Earth Mourns. Durban: Purfleet.] and Bahadur Tejani’Day After Tomorrow[Tejani, Bahadur. 1971.Day After Tomorrow. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.] as an anticipatory con...
| Publicado en: | Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 20 - 36 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2018
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