Rajendra Chetty

Rajendra Chetty (19**- ) [1] is a South African academic and amateur theatre actor.

Biography

Was appointed Head of Department of Research in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) [2] in 2004. He is one time the President of the English Academy of Southern Africa, and was awarded the Fulbright visiting professor scholarship to the USA in 2015 and received the 2016 Medal of Honour from the South African Education Association for his research.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

As actor

A part time actor, he played "Sunny" in the 2010 Cape Town production of The Lahnee's Pleasure, staged by Artscape in partnership with the High Commission of India, directed by Ronnie Govender.

As academic

A postcolonial scholar, he has written extensively on commonwealth literature, critical pedagogy; and issues of race, class and marginalization. His seminal works include South African Indian Writings in English (2002), The Vintage Book of South African Indian Writings (2010) and At the Edge. The Writings of Ronnie Govender (2017).

His co-edited works include Indias Abroad: The Diaspora Writes Back (2005); Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diaspora (2009); and Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing (2010).