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The pleasures and tribulations of migration -- Indian Ocean travel and belonging in Nanji Kalidas Mehta's Dream half-expressed -- Gastropolitics and diasporic self-writing -- Images of Africa and the making of Asian identities -- Gender, sexuality and community -- Miscegenation and culture -- Romancing decolonization -- Memory, metafiction and modernity.
This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism.