Internal Frontiers - African Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora in Twentieth-Century South Africa (Paperback)

In this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress's development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism. In so doing, Soske combines intellectual, political, religious, urban, and gender history to tell a story that is global in reach while remaining grounded in the everyday materiality of life under apartheid. Even as Indian independence provided black South African intellectuals with new models of conceptualizing sovereignty, debates over the place of the Indian diaspora in Africa (the "also-colonized other") forced a reconsideration of the nation's internal and external boundaries. In response to the traumas of Partition and the 1949 Durban Riots, a group of thinkers in the ANC, centered in the Indian Ocean city of Durban and led by ANC president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli, developed a new philosophy of nationhood that affirmed South Africa's simultaneously heterogeneous and fundamentally African character. Internal Frontiers is a major contribution to postcolonial and Indian Ocean studies and charts new ways of writing about African nationalism.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New African Histories
Release date:	December 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Jon Soske
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	360
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-2284-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Nationalism Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > African history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8214-2284-7
Barcode:	9780821422847

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