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Author Desai, Gaurav Gajanan.

Title Commerce with the universe : Africa, India, and the Afrasian imagination / Gaurav Desai.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
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.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 22, 2013).
Subject Indic literature -- History and criticism.
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature.
East African literature (English) -- History and criticism.
East Indians -- Africa, East.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9780231164542
9780231535595 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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