dc.contributor.author | Flockemann, Miki | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-01T08:55:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-01T08:55:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Flockemann, M. (2017). Complicit Refugees, cosmopolitans and xenophobia: Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef' in conversation with texts on xenophobia in South Africa. International Journal of the Humanities, 6(9): 71-78 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1447-9508 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/2902 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the aftermath of the brutal xenophobic attacks in parts of South Africa against 'other' Africans between March
and May this year, a fairly sustained (if repetitive) public debate has emerged in the local press. The aim is to extend this
discussion to South African literary production and to stories from elsewhere - in this case, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
The distinction between complicit refugees and cosmopolitans draws on some of the arguments of Mark Saunders and Anthony
Appiah as a framework for comparing Hosseini s popular 'The Kite Runner' (2003) and Gunsekera's lyrical 'Reef' (1994).
These will be read in relation to K. Sella Duiker's 'Thirteen Cents' (2000). Establishing a 'conversation' between these
texts is associated (from Appiah) with calls/or re-thinking terms such as citizen and cosmopolitan. This, in turn. has implications
for the current expressions of and about, xenophobia in South Africa. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Common Ground | en_US |
dc.rights | This is the post-print version of the article published by Common Ground publishers. | |
dc.subject | Complicity | en_US |
dc.subject | Refugee | en_US |
dc.subject | Cosmopolitan | en_US |
dc.subject | Xenophobia | en_US |
dc.subject | Nationalism | en_US |
dc.subject | Identity | en_US |
dc.subject | Transformation | en_US |
dc.title | Complicit refugees, cosmopolitans and xenophobia: Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef' in conversation with texts on xenophobia in South Africa | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
dc.description.accreditation | Scopus | en_US |