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| Title: | Special issue: print cultures, nationalisms and publics of the Indian Ocean |
| Editors: | Hofmeyr, Isabel Kaarsholm, Preben |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute (ISSN 0001-9720) |
| Volume: | 81 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 172 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Indian Ocean Kenya South Africa Tanzania Zanzibar |
| Subjects: | Indians newspapers cinema religious literature Islam nationalism |
| Links: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=AFR&volumeId=81&seriesId=0&issueId=01 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_the_journal_of_the_international_african_institute/toc/afr.81.1.html |
| Abstract: | The Indian Ocean has been called the 'coming strategic arena of the twenty-first century'. This special issue provides an overview of emerging trends in the field of Indian Ocean Studies and draws out their implications for scholars of Africa. The focus is on the role of print and visual culture in constituting public spheres in and between the societies around the Ocean. Contributions: Introduction: print cultures, nationalisms and publics of the Indian Ocean (Isabel Hofmeyr, Preben Kaarsholm and Bodil Folke Frederiksen); The diaspora at home: 'Indian Views' and the making of Zuleikha Mayat's public voice (Thembisa Waetjen and Goolam Vahed); Politics and business in the Indian newspapers of colonial Tanganyika (James R. Brennan); Indian Ocean world cinema: viewing the history of race, diaspora and nationalism in urban Tanzania (Ned Bertz); Authority and piety, writing and print: a preliminary study of the circulation of Islamic texts in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Zanzibar (Anne K. Bang); Transnational Islam and public sphere dynamics in KwaZulu-Natal: rethinking South Africa's place in the Indian Ocean world (Preben Kaarsholm); Empire, race and the Indians in colonial Kenya's contested public political sphere, 1919-1923 (Sana Aiyar); Print, newspapers and audiences in colonial Kenya: African and Indian improvement, protest and connections (Bodil Folke Frederiksen). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
