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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Desai, Gaurav Gajanan
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Indic literature > History and criticism. National characteristics, East Indian, in literature. East African literature (English) > History and criticism. East Indians > Africa, East. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.