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.