| Description |
1 online resource (313 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 perspective, Desai connects the medieval trade routes of the Islamicate empire, the early independence movements galvanized in part by Gandhi's southern African experiences, the invention of new ethnic nationalisms, and the rise of plural, multiethnic nations to the fertile exchange taking place across the Indian Ocean. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indic literature -- History and criticism.
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Indic literature. |
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National characteristics, East Indian, in literature.
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National characteristics, East Indian, in literature. |
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East African literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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East African literature (English) |
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East Indians -- Africa, East.
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East Indians. |
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Africa, East. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| ISBN |
9780231535595 (electronic book) |
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0231535597 (electronic book) |
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