(Un)settled states
Indian Ocean passages, performative belonging and restless mobility in post-apartheid South African fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3649824 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Samuelson (0000-0002-5070-1046, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 272-287 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02533952.2010.492712 |
| OpenAlex | W1979612402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 21 |
A number of post‐apartheid literary works revisit nineteenth‐ to early twentieth‐century Indian Ocean passages. Bringing into visibility South Africa’s other ocean – until recently largely occluded by the conceptual bedazzlement of the black Atlantic – they unsettle some of the paradigms through which it has been imagined. This article explores five such novels, which articulate or critique various citizenship claims through a poetics of (un)settlement. One strand from this cluster employs rhetorical strategies such as an ‘Atlantic register’ to translate oceanic routes into territorial roots, mobility into autochthony; the other registers a more unsettled state as it scrutinises the gendered politics of home‐making and national belonging, and issues a retort to the multicultural imagination
Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Cosmopolitanism · Ethnology · Indian ocean · Literature · Multiculturalism · Performative utterance · Poetics · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture · Oceanography
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Insiders and Outsiders
Insiders and Outsiders
Nomadic Identities
Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies
Slavery and Social Death
A Hundred Horizons
Eyes Across the Water
Insiders and Outsiders
Insiders and Outsiders
From Cane Fields to Freedom
The Black Atlantic
The Black Atlantic Meets the Indian Ocean
Reconsiderations
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |