A Fire that Blazed in the Ocean: Gandhi and the Poetics of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909-1911 is a 150-page book that makes available, for the first time to English readers, 35 poems that originally appreared between 1909 and 1922 in the Indian Opinion, a newspaper started by Mohandas Gandhi in 1903.
The book is the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between a historian and a scholar of cultures and religion, and is the only anthology dedicated exclusively to Gandhi's impact on Satyagraha poetry in South Africa.
Praise for the book, A Fire that Blazed in the Ocean
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