 | Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination Subjects: Indic literature -- History and criticism; National characteristics East Indian in literature; East African literature (English) -- History and criticism; East Indians -- Africa East; Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa's encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization. Gaurav Desai is professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library (2001), editor of Teaching the African Novel (2009), and coeditor of Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism (2005). |
