Africa in the Indian Imagination

Klappentext Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written and edited many books, including Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons, Postcolonial Studies and Beyond, and A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles, all also published by Duke University Press. Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and the author of Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading. Zusammenfassung Antoinette Burton challenges nostalgic narratives of the Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference by showing how postcolonial Indian identity was based on the subordination of Africans and blackness.

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Antoinette Burton

Zusammenfassung
Antoinette Burton challenges nostalgic narratives of the Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference by showing how postcolonial Indian identity was based on the subordination of Africans and blackness.

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Foreword / Isabel Hofmeyr viii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction. Citing/Siting Africa in the Indian Postcolonial Imagination 1

1. "Every Secret Thing"? Racial Politics in Ansuyah R. Singh's Behold the Earth Mourns (1960) 27

2. Race and the Politics of Position: Above and Below in Frank Moraes' The Importance of Being Black (1965) 57

3. Fictions of Postcolonial Development: Race, Intimacy and Afro-Asian Solidarity in Chanakya Sen's The Morning After (1973) 89

4. Hands and Feed: Phyllis Naidoo's Impressions of Anti-apartheid History (2002-2006) 123

   Epilogue 167

   Index 173