James Ocita
Biographic Data
| ID | 138031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Ocita |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Ocita |
| SIGNATURE | OCITA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Makerere University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Utopian envisioning
The article examines the deployment utopianism in Ansuyah Singh’s Behold the Earth Mourns [Singh, Ansuyah R. 1960. Behold the Earth Mourns. Durban: Purfleet.] and Bahadur Tejani’ Day After Tomorrow [Tejani, Bahadur. 1971. Day After Tomorrow. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.] as an anticipatory consciousness, which, in projecting visions of a better world, indicts contemporary realities and structures of domination against which the two na…
Re-Membered Pasts, Dismembered Families
The essay explores, first, the centrality of family structures in the practices and transmission of value-systems associated with Indianness; and, secondly, how material objects that are sourced from ‘India’ are fetishized and deployed through such performances to counter realities of cultural loss and alienation that follow migration and dislocation in three post-apartheid novels: Imraan Coovadia’s The Wedding (2001), Aziz Hassim’s The Lotus Peo…
Utopian envisioning
The article examines the deployment utopianism in Ansuyah Singh’s Behold the Earth Mourns [Singh, Ansuyah R. 1960. Behold the Earth Mourns. Durban: Purfleet.] and Bahadur Tejani’ Day After Tomorrow [Tejani, Bahadur. 1971. Day After Tomorrow. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.] as an anticipatory consciousness, which, in projecting visions of a better world, indicts contemporary realities and structures of domination against which the two na…
Re-Membered Pasts, Dismembered Families
The essay explores, first, the centrality of family structures in the practices and transmission of value-systems associated with Indianness; and, secondly, how material objects that are sourced from ‘India’ are fetishized and deployed through such performances to counter realities of cultural loss and alienation that follow migration and dislocation in three post-apartheid novels: Imraan Coovadia’s The Wedding (2001), Aziz Hassim’s The Lotus Peo…
Utopian envisioning
The article examines the deployment utopianism in Ansuyah Singh’s Behold the Earth Mourns [Singh, Ansuyah R. 1960. Behold the Earth Mourns. Durban: Purfleet.] and Bahadur Tejani’ Day After Tomorrow [Tejani, Bahadur. 1971. Day After Tomorrow. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.] as an anticipatory consciousness, which, in projecting visions of a better world, indicts contemporary realities and structures of domination against which the two na…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Alienation (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)