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May 1939: Indian women indentured workers leave the sugar cane fields after a day’s work on a plantation at Mount Edgecombe, Natal. Photo: Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images
ASHWIN DESAI

South African Indian literature explores identity

Books and academic articles tell us our own stories and help others to understand them

  • Aarti Bhana
7 min read
Transplanted cultures: Indian women are shown on a sugar plantation in Natal in 1939. Indentured labourers arrived in South Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photo: Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images
AUTHORS

Children of Sugarcane: Where nothing sweet endures

With a rich plot full of surprises, Joanne Joseph’s debbut novel is bound together by a poetic turn of phrase

  • Sandile Ngidi
6 min read