The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

Informationen zum Autor Antoinette Burton Klappentext Focuses on the "minor" but resonant career of a woman from India living in the U.S. to investigate political and historical questions about high and low culture, gender, cosmopolitan identity as it relates to empire, and the career of orientalis Zusammenfassung Antoinette Burton uses a mid-twentieth-century Indian-American authors career to analyze broader issues of postwar Americas understanding of itself and the wider world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The East as a Postcolonial Career 1 1. Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Education of Santha Rama Rau in the Age of Bandung, 19451960 32 2. Interpreting British India in Anglo-America: The Cultural Politics of Santha Rama Rau's A Passage to India, 1960x2005 71 3. Home to India: Cooking with Santha Rama Rau 109 Epilogue: Cosmopolitanism by Any Other Name 145 Notes 153 Selected Bibliography 195 Index 209

Autorentext

Antoinette Burton is the Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Among her books are the collections Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History; Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (with Tony Ballantyne); and After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, all of which are **also published by Duke University Press.

Klappentext

Focuses on the "minor" but resonant career of a woman from India living in the U.S. to investigate political and historical questions about high and low culture, gender, cosmopolitan identity as it relates to empire, and the career of orientalis

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

Inhalt

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The East as a Postcolonial Career 1

1. Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Education of Santha Rama Rau in the Age of Bandung, 1945–1960 32
2. Interpreting British India in Anglo-America: The Cultural Politics of Santha Rama Rau’s A Passage to India, 1960x2005 71
3. Home to India: Cooking with Santha Rama Rau 109
   Epilogue: Cosmopolitanism by Any Other Name 145
   Notes 153
   Selected Bibliography 195
   Index 209