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.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Description:	1 online resource.
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. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9984083

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ISBN:	0231535597 (electronic bk.) 9780231535595 (electronic bk.) 9780231164542 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0231164548 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Other form:	Original 9780231164542 0231164548

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.