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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Desai, Gaurav Gajanan, author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, 2013. ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (313 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Indic literature -- History and criticism. National characteristics, East Indian, in literature. East African literature (English) -- History and criticism. East Indians -- Africa, East. East African literature (English) East Indians. Indic literature. National characteristics, East Indian, in literature. Africa, East. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11209041

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ISBN:	9780231535595 0231535597 0231164548 9780231164542 9781306311168 1306311160
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 27, 2016).
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.
Other form:	Print version: Desai, Gaurav Gajanan. Commerce with the universe. New York : Columbia University Press, [2013] 9780231164542
Standard no.:	10.7312/desa16454

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.