Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination

Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination
ISBN-10
0231164548
ISBN-13
9780231164542
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
314
Language
English
Published
2013-09-24
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Gaurav Desai

Description

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.

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