Commerce with the universe : Africa, India, and the Afrasian imagination /

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Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa's encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization. Rather than approach literature and culture from a nation-centered pe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Desai, Gaurav Gajanan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Indic literature > History and criticism.
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature.
East African literature (English) > History and criticism.
East Indians > Africa, East.
Littérature de l'Inde > Histoire et critique.
Littérature est-africaine (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY > Africa > East.
East African literature (English)
East Indians.
Indic literature.
Africa, East.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ocean and narration
  • Old world orders: Amitav Ghosh and the writing of nostalgia
  • Post-manichaean aesthetics: Asian texts and lives
  • Through Indian eyes: travel and the performance of ethnicity
  • Commerce as romance: Mehta, Madhvani, Manji
  • Lighting a candle on Mount Kilimanjaro: partnering with Nyerere
  • Anti anti-Asianism and the politics of dissent: M.G. Vassanji's The gunny sack
  • Coda: Entangled lives.

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