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Brown over black : race and the politics of postcolonial citation /

Recent attention to the urgency of economic and political cooperation between the Indian government and African states – often termed south-south globalization – suggests that the time has come for more critical histories of “Afro-Asian solidarity” than are presently available. That term, which gain...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burton, Antoinette M.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Gurgaon : Three Essays Collective, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Citing/siting Africa in the Indian postcolonial imagination
  • "Every secret thing"? : racial politics in Ansuyah R. Singh's Behold the earth mourns (1960)
  • Race and the politics of position : above and below in Frank Moraes' The importance of being black (1965)
  • Fictions of postcolonial development : race, intimacy and Afro-Asian solidarity in Chanakya Sen's The morning after (1973)
  • Hand and feet : Phyllis Naidoo's impressions of anti-apartheid history (2002-2006)
  • Epilogue.