The politics of love and history: Asian women and African men in East African literature
The politics of love and history: Asian women and African men in East African literature
This paper traces a chronology of representations of Asian East Africans in literature written in English. Considering novels, short stories and films produced over the past fifty years, it focuses on love stories between Asian and black characters. The paper highlights the significance of these love stories to the evocation of diasporic histories, and the making and breaking of national mythologies. It is particularly concerned with the rare telling of relationships between Asian women and black men. The paper most fully works towards an understanding of the heightened and brittle symbolic resonance of these love stories within the political historiographies offered by the texts.
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Jones, Stephanie
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1 January 2011
Jones, Stephanie
19fbdd53-fdd0-43ad-9203-7462e5f658c6
Jones, Stephanie
(2011)
The politics of love and history: Asian women and African men in East African literature.
Research in African Literatures, 42 (3), .
Abstract
This paper traces a chronology of representations of Asian East Africans in literature written in English. Considering novels, short stories and films produced over the past fifty years, it focuses on love stories between Asian and black characters. The paper highlights the significance of these love stories to the evocation of diasporic histories, and the making and breaking of national mythologies. It is particularly concerned with the rare telling of relationships between Asian women and black men. The paper most fully works towards an understanding of the heightened and brittle symbolic resonance of these love stories within the political historiographies offered by the texts.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2011
Published date: 1 January 2011
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