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

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Columbia University Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (313 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.