"Time to Show Our True Colors": The Gendered Politics of "Indianness" in Post-Apartheid South Africa  

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Radhakrishnan, Smitha

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Gender and society; vol. 19 no. 02 (Apr. 2005), page 262-281.
Topik: gendered nationalism; South African Indians; post-apartheid politics; minority nationalism
Fulltext: 262.pdf (141.12KB)

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Facing marginalization in the political context of the “new South Africa” and lost social and economic privileges under a Black government, South African Indians articulate the need to keep up culture. In so doing, they simultaneously extend the isolation fostered through apartheid and utilize newly available political language to assert a partially disadvantaged minority voice in a distinctly gendered and racialized way. Echoing the spirit of nationalism in colonial India that figured the bourgeois Indian woman as the essence of the national culture, South African Indians reinvent a feminine icon of Indian culture for distinctly political ends. At the individual level, gendered participants in this project of cultural nationalism enact, resist, and reshape its meanings, exposing both the limitations and the possibilities for South African national identities.

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