Banyans Behind Bars: Three South African Indian Memoirs
摘要
The anti-apartheid struggle shaped the South African Indian writers of the memoirs examined in this chapter emotionally and politically as regards their allegiance to their host country. Despite their restraining orders, prison sentences, and exile, Dr Goonam, Indres Naidoo, and Amina Cachalia, like the banyan tree, could not be tied down and neutralized. The emphasis in these memoirs runs from grieving for the dismantling of a close-knit community in Coolie Doctor through the reflective nostalgia for an unachieved utopia in Island in Chains to an upsurge of female resilience in When Hope and History Rhyme.