Exploring the Challenges of Ethnic Fluidity within the Writings of Ronnie Govender

"This paper explores how the fiction writer and playwright, Ronnie Govender, narrates Asian diasporic identity in context of South African society. I shall depart from premise that this Indian presence is ambiguous inasmuch as its subjectivity must negotiate ontological categories both whiteness blackness. With triangulated relationship mind, proceed to evidence Govender delivers a layered reading ethnic fluidity was historically curtailed by white minority who, systematically, dynamited conviviality means shore up own privilege. The principal texts employed study be: Lahnee’s Pleasure, At Edge Other Cato Manor Stories, Black Chin White Chin: Song Atman."