Gaurav Desai: 2 books
Subject to Colonialism
African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2001
Subject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-century Africa is viewed and analyzed among scholars. Employing literary, historical, and anthropological techniques, Gaurav Desai attempts to generate a new understanding of issues that permeate discussions...
Commerce with the Universe
Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in and about East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a surprising, alternative history of Africa's experience with slavery, migration, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Consulting Afrasian texts that are literary and nonfictional,...