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Internal frontiers : African nationalism and the Indian diaspora in twentieth-century South Africa / Jon Soske.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soske, Jon, author.
- Series:
- New African histories series.
- New African Histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indians--South Africa.
- East Indians.
- South Africa--Politics and government--20th century.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The internal frontier of the nation state
- The racial crucible : economy, stereotype, and urban space in Durban
- Beyond the "native question" : Xuma, Lembede, and the event of Indian independence
- "That lightning that struck" : the 1949 Durban riots and the crisis in African nationalism
- The racial politics of home : sex, feminine virtue, and the boundaries of the nation
- The cosmopolitan moment : chief Albert Luthuli, the defiance campaign, and a new aesthetics of nation
- The Natal synthesis : inclusive nationalism and the unity of the ANC
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 17, 2017).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821446102
- 082144610X
- OCLC:
- 1343242751
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