TY - BOOK AU - Hansen,Thomas Blom TI - Melancholia of freedom : social life in an Indian township in South Africa SN - 9780691152967 AV - DT2405.D889 E3735 2012 U1 - 305.89141068455 22 PY - 2012/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - East Indians KW - South Africa KW - Durban KW - Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) KW - Race relations KW - Social conditions KW - Religion KW - Durban (South Africa) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality" ER -