Desai, Gaurav Gajanan.

Commerce with the universe : Africa, India, and the Afrasian imagination / Gaurav Desai. - xiv, 291 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.

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.

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Indic literature--History and criticism.
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature.
East African literature (English)--History and criticism.
East Indians--Africa, East.