Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa /

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Author / Creator:Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- author.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
©2012
Description:1 online resource (xv, 354 pages)
Language:English
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11134082
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ISBN:9781400842612
1400842611
0691152950
9780691152950
0691152969
9780691152967
9780691152967
9780691152950
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jacket art: Unit 3 © Riason Naidoo. Courtesy of the Durban Art Gallery/South Africa.
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Summary:The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Du.
Other form:Print version: Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- Melancholia of freedom. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012 9780691152950