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The postcolonial careers of Santha Rama Rau / Antoinette Burton.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.3.R327 Z6 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-
- Series:
- Next wave (Duke University Press)
- Next wave
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rama Rau, Santha, 1923-2009.
- Rama Rau, Santha.
- Women authors, Indic--20th century--Biography.
- Women authors, Indic.
- East Indian Americans--Biography.
- East Indian Americans.
- India--In literature.
- India.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 214 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India's elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer well known, she was for several decades a popular expert on India. She provided an insider's view of Indian cultures, traditions, and history to an American public increasingly aware of the expanded role of the United States on the world stage. Between 1945 and 1970, Rama Rau published half a dozen books, including travelogues, novels, a memoir, and a Time-Life cookbook; she was a regular contributor to periodicals such as the New Yorker, the New York Times, McCall's, and Reader's Digest. Drawing on archival research and interviews with Rama Rau, Antoinette Burton opens Rama Rau's career into an examination of orientalism in the postwar United States, the changing idioms of cosmopolitanism in the postcolonial era, and the afterlife of British colonialism in the American public sphere.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the East as a postcolonial career
- Cold War cosmopolitanism : the education of Santha Rama Rau in the age of Bandung, 1945-1960
- Interpreting British India in Anglo-America : the cultural politics of Santha Rama Rau's A passage to India, 1960-2005
- Home to India : cooking with Santha Rama Rau
- Epilogue: cosmopolitanism by any other name.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822340508
- 082234050X
- 9780822340713
- 0822340712
- OCLC:
- 122526812
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