1st Edition

Passenger Traders in Transit Revisiting Ugandan-Indian Narratives of Exile

By Anirban Banerjee Copyright 2027
114 Pages
by Routledge

This book is one of the first scholarly investigations into the literary representations of the lived realities of Ugandan-Indians, often referred to as 'Passenger Traders', who were exiled in 1972 under the Idi Amin regime. Employing an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that combines diaspora criticism, human geography, memory studies, and childhood studies, this volume provides a nuanced... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 Historicising Passenger Traders: Contexts and Conditions

Chapter 2 Beneath the Ugandan Sky: Reflections on Home, Homeland Consciousness, and Hospitality

Chapter 3 Out of Place, Time, and Space: The Affective Geographies of Exile and Statelessness

Chapter 4 The Politics and Poetics of Memory: Identity Construction through the Prism of Remembrance and Oblivion

Chapter 5 Children of the Diaspora: Imagining Belonging & Co-existence through the Ethics of Interpretive Reproduction

Conclusion

Biography

Anirban Banerjee is an Assistant Professor of English at Government General Degree College, Kalna-I, WB, India. He completed his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from The University of Burdwan and was a recipient of the UGC Junior Research Fellowship. His recent publications have appeared in Scopus-indexed journals such as South Asia Research (SAGE) and Africa Spectrum (SAGE). His academic interests include Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Literature(s), and Memory Studies.