Commerce with the Universe : : Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination / / Gaurav Desai.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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