International geographics: Looking out in Ishtiyaq Shukri'S The Silent Minaret

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Abstract

This essay examines Ishtiyaq Shukri's novel The Silent Minaret (2005) in order to understand the changes that have taken place in South African Indian fiction after nearly a decade of democracy, particularly the shift in focus to a transnational aesthetic based on the intersection of South and Southeastern Asia, South Africa, England, and the Islamic world. The Silent Minaret is exemplary of a certain "turn" in South African Indian literature that reveals a reorienting of the inward glance of apartheid-era fiction to a gazing at other worlds in order to position Indians and Indian writing globally as well as locally. © 2011.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Research in African Literatures

First Page

17

Last Page

30

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