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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810464603321

Autore

Burton Antoinette M. <1961->

Titolo

The postcolonial careers of Santha Rama Rau [[electronic resource] /] / Antoinette Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-283-03561-8

9786613035615

0-8223-9050-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Next wave

Disciplina

828/.5209

Soggetti

Women authors, Indic - 20th century

East Indian Americans

India In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the East as a postcolonial career -- Cold War cosmopolitanism : the education of Santha Rama Rau in the age of Bandung, 1945-1960 -- Interpreting British India in Anglo-America : the cultural politics of Santha Rama Rau's A passage to India, 1960-2005 -- Home to India : cooking with Santha Rama Rau -- Epilogue: cosmopolitanism by any other name.

Sommario/riassunto

Antoinette Burton uses a mid-twentieth-century Indian-American author s career to analyze broader issues of postwar America s understanding of itself and the wider world.