(Un)settled states

Indian Ocean passages, performative belonging and restless mobility in post-apartheid South African fiction

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3649824
AutoresM Samuelson (0000-0002-5070-1046, Stellenbosch University, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume36
Fascículo2
Páginas272-287
Data de publicação2010-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02533952.2010.492712
OpenAlexW1979612402
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas21

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