The first south asian east african novel: Bahadur Tejani's Day After Tomorrow
The first south asian east african novel: Bahadur Tejani's Day After Tomorrow
Bahadur Tejani's Day After Tomorrow reads most easily as a schematic narrative about race relations in East Africa. The novel runs on a heady mix of Negritude and D.H. Lawrence, offering a sexually and mythically charged, biologically inexorable, historically reductive African pastoral as a vision for East Africa's future. Against this first impression, this paper works towards a less unrelenting reading of the novel. This reading strives to re-value the terms of good faith - the fervent sense of both transgression and alignment - with which this first novel of the South Asian East African Diaspora was offered to its local constituency.
south asian east african identity, african literature, national allegory
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Jones, Stephanie
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March 2009
Jones, Stephanie
19fbdd53-fdd0-43ad-9203-7462e5f658c6
Jones, Stephanie
(2009)
The first south asian east african novel: Bahadur Tejani's Day After Tomorrow.
Contemporary South Asia, 17 (1), .
(doi:10.1080/09584930802624653).
Abstract
Bahadur Tejani's Day After Tomorrow reads most easily as a schematic narrative about race relations in East Africa. The novel runs on a heady mix of Negritude and D.H. Lawrence, offering a sexually and mythically charged, biologically inexorable, historically reductive African pastoral as a vision for East Africa's future. Against this first impression, this paper works towards a less unrelenting reading of the novel. This reading strives to re-value the terms of good faith - the fervent sense of both transgression and alignment - with which this first novel of the South Asian East African Diaspora was offered to its local constituency.
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Published date: March 2009
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south asian east african identity, african literature, national allegory
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