Re-locating memories: transnational and local narratives of Indian South Africans in Cape Town

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorDhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-07T11:51:19Z
dc.date.available2017-12-07T11:51:19Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article plays on the word re-location to examine the memories of Indians in South Africa through oral histories about relocation as a result of the Group Areas Act, to memories of parents and grandparents relocating to South Africa from India as told to interviewees and to their own memories of journeys to India and back. The narratives of mobilities traverse time and national boundaries and are counter-posed by narratives of local mobilities as well as stasis. The article identifies ways of narrating, themes of narration and the meaning of memories while noting the re-location of memory construction against the backdrop of South Africa�s democratic transition and the 150th commemoration of the arrival of indentured Indians to South Africa. It argues that the local and the national are important in narrations of transnational journeys, thus advancing a particular approach to transnational memory studies.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDhupelia-Mesthrie, U. (2017). Re-location memories: transnational and local narratives of Indian South Africans in Cape Town. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 52(8): 1065 � 1079en_US
dc.identifier.issn0021-9096
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909616642793
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/3307
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909616642793
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectMemoriesen_US
dc.subjectTransnationalen_US
dc.subjectRelocationen_US
dc.subjectMobilityen_US
dc.subjectIndia�South Africaen_US
dc.subjectCape Townen_US
dc.titleRe-locating memories: transnational and local narratives of Indian South Africans in Cape Townen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Mesthrie_Re-locating-memories_2017.pdf
Size:
1.26 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Research Articles (History)