Créopolis: Post-Apartheid and Creative-Critical Literary Testimony

南非真相与和解委员会为安德烈·布林克创造了一系列关于种族隔离遗产的写作可能性(1998)。在种族隔离三十年后写作的散居海外的印度裔南非人有什么可能性？我的实践指导的博士学位将产生一部小说--《都市纪事》--探索后种族隔离时代的创伤，跨越不同的世代和规模，从世界历史到个人。Créopolis聚焦于伦敦一个三代人的家庭，并将老一辈人对种族隔离的记忆与一名研究生在英国脱欧后面临的挑战进行了对比。它捕捉了一个两次流离失所的种族主义社区的独特的跨国经历。我使用跨学科研究，允许批判性话语为创造性叙事提供信息。我的作品有：种族隔离时代的回忆录、实地采访、创伤和情感理论、触觉现象学(触觉)、人权、种族政治，以及在南非的印度活动家的档案记录。

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission created, for André Brink, a 'spectrum of possibilities'for writing about Apartheid's on-going legacy (1998). What possibilities are there for Indian-South-Africans in diaspora, writing three decades after Apartheid? My practice-led PhD will produce a novel -Créopolis - to explore Post-Apartheid traumas across different generations and scales, from world-historical to personal. Créopolis focuses on a tri-generational London-based family and juxtaposes oldergeneration's memories of Apartheid with challenges faced by a graduate student in the wake of Brexit. Itcaptures unique transnational experiences of a twice-displaced racialised community. I useinterdisciplinary research, allowing critical discourse to inform creative narrative. I work with: Apartheid-era memoirs, field interviews, trauma and affect theories, phenomenologies of touch (haptics), humanrights, race politics, and archival records of Indian activists in South Africa.