ABSTRACT In today’s western multicultural societies, Eurocentric notions of ‘black’ and ‘white’ have polarised the debate about racial relations and effaced the complexities of interaction between South Asian migrant communities and people of other ethnic and racial backgrounds. This special issue is geared toward exploring how the complexity of contemporary race relations between the South Asian and the African communities, as well as its legacy in Africa, the Caribbean, and the India Ocean, find expression through literary and cultural narratives. Engaging with a variety of colonial and postcolonial contexts – namely Mauritius, South Africa, Bengal, Barbados, Kenya, and Trinidad – our contributors attempt to address gaps in the exploration of race relations from within the South Asian diasporic imaginary and to understand race relations in the context of British colonial-capitalist expansion and of its postcolonial and global inflections.

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引言：种族关系和南亚侨民想象

摘要 在当今的西方多元文化社会中，以欧洲为中心的“黑人”和“白人”概念使关于种族关系的辩论两极分化，并抹去了南亚移民社区与其他种族和种族背景的人之间互动的复杂性。本期特刊旨在探讨南亚和非洲社区之间当代种族关系的复杂性，及其在非洲、加勒比海和印度洋的遗产如何通过文学和文化叙事得到表达。参与各种殖民和后殖民环境——即毛里求斯、南非、孟加拉、巴巴多斯、肯尼亚、