Commerce with the Universe : Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination /

Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in and about East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a surprising, alternative history of Africa's experience with slavery, migration, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Consulting Afrasian texts that are literary and non...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Desai, Gaurav (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Temas:
East African literature (English) > History and criticism.
East Indians > Africa, East.
Indic literature > History and criticism.
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / African.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Ocean and Narration
  • 2. Old World Orders: Amitav Ghosh and the Writing of Nostalgia
  • 3. Post-Manichaean Aesthetics: Asian Texts and Lives
  • 4. Through Indian Eyes: Travel and the Performance of Ethnicity
  • 5. Commerce as Romance: Mehta, Madhvani, Manji
  • 6. Lighting a Candle on Mount Kilimanjaro: Partnering with Nyerere
  • 7. Anti Anti-Asianism and the Politics of Dissent: M. G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack
  • Coda: Entangled Lives
  • Notes
  • Selected References
  • Index

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