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An “Indian commons” in Durban? limits to mutuality, or the city to come
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Sharad Chari --- Centre for Indian Studies in Africa and Department of Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper explores the ways in which memories of Black South Africans in Durban, identified by racial discourse and often by themselves as Indian and Coloured, reach back to early twentieth century processes of dispossession and occupation. Through historical and... -
At home to the other: the racialising and deracialising of anthropological research in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Robin Palmer --- Department of Anthropology,There is an older and even more enduring split in South African anthropology than the erstwhile division between ‘English’ and ‘Afrikaans’ anthropologies, but it is never acknowledged. This is the racial split between whites who privilege the Other, usually the... -
A conversation: subaltern studies in South Asia and post-colonial anthropology in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Helen Macdonald --- Department of Social Anthropology,Subaltern Studies emerged at the end of the 1970s among a collective of English and Indian historians of South Asia, and developed into a creative and malleable reworking of knowledge(s). Importantly. the subalternists contributed to an interdisciplinarity that displayed a... -
Contesting the Subaltern Narrative: The Trickster Trope in the Kenyan Political Autobiography
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Stephen Mutie --- , KenyaThis article is a critique of the idea of subalternity 1 as it is used in the Kenyan political autobiographies of leaders who have reigned but never ruled. 2 The study is largely located within postcolonial theory, with particular emphasis... -
The Feminist Writer and the Subaltern: A Perspective on Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Andrew Nyongesa --- , Kenya Joseph Gaita Murimi --- , Kenya Justus Kizito Makokha --- , KenyaDominant literary conversations like post-structuralism have crowned the literary writer as an impartial and reliable voice for the voiceless in oppressive cultural settings. Since the marginal group is weak and cannot speak for themselves, the intellectual is given express authority...