Commerce with the universe : Africa, India, and the Afrasian imagination / / Gaurav Desai |
Autore | Desai Gaurav Gajanan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 891/.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Indic literature - History and criticism
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature East African literature (English) - History and criticism East Indians - Africa, East |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-231-53559-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462995203321 |
Desai Gaurav Gajanan | ||
New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Commerce with the universe : Africa, India, and the Afrasian imagination / / Gaurav Desai |
Autore | Desai Gaurav Gajanan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 891/.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Indic literature - History and criticism
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature East African literature (English) - History and criticism East Indians - Africa, East |
ISBN | 0-231-53559-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787800303321 |
Desai Gaurav Gajanan | ||
New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Commerce with the universe : Africa, India, and the Afrasian imagination / / Gaurav Desai |
Autore | Desai Gaurav Gajanan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 891/.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Indic literature - History and criticism
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature East African literature (English) - History and criticism East Indians - Africa, East |
ISBN | 0-231-53559-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813713803321 |
Desai Gaurav Gajanan | ||
New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Mahatma misunderstood : the politics and forms of literary nationalism in India / / Snehal Shingavi [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Shingavi Snehal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 891/.4 |
Collana | Anthem South Asian Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Indic fiction - History and criticism
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature |
ISBN |
1-299-24272-3
0-85728-647-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Mahatma as proof: the nationalist origins of the historiography of Indian writing in English -- The Mahatma didn't say so, but ... : Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and the sympathies of middle-class nationalists -- The Mahatma may be all wrong about politics, but ... : Raja Rao's Kanthapura and the religious imagination of the Indian, secular, nationalist middle class -- The missing Mahatma: Ahmed Ali and the aesthetics of Muslim anticolonialism -- The grammar of the Gandhians: Jayaprakash Narayan and the figure of Gandhi -- The Mahatma misunderstood: the arrested development of the nationalist dialectic -- Conclusion: Dangerous solidarities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465465303321 |
Shingavi Snehal | ||
London : , : Anthem Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial environments : nature, culture and the contemporary Indian novel in English / / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee |
Autore | Mukherjee Upamanyu Pablo |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2010.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basingstoke [England] ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.9140935854 |
Soggetto topico |
Indic fiction (English) - 20th century - History and criticism
Indic fiction (English) - 21st century - History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature National characteristics, East Indian, in literature Environmentalism in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-87002-5
9786612870026 0-230-25132-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | From Earth Day to Earth summits : trajectories and debates -- 'Green postcolonialism' and 'postcolonial Green' : literary exchanges -- Towards eco-materialism -- The river and the dance : Arundhati Roy -- Water/land : Amitav Ghosh -- Dead air : Indra Sinha -- 'Blood on my water' : Ruchir Joshi. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825897903321 |
Mukherjee Upamanyu Pablo | ||
Basingstoke [England] ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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R.K. Narayan [[electronic resource] /] / John Thieme |
Autore | Thieme John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.912 |
Collana | Contemporary world writers |
Soggetto topico |
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature
Malgudi (India : Imaginary place) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-84779-536-6
1-78170-124-5 1-84779-196-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 Early novels; 3 Middle-period novels: Mr Sampath to Waiting for the Mahatma; 4 Middle-period novels: The Guide to The Painter of Signs; 5 Late novels; 6 Critical overview and conclusion; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465956503321 |
Thieme John | ||
Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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