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Indian Ocean studies : cultural, social, and political perspectives / edited by Shanti Moorthy and Ashraf Jamal.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Indian Ocean series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- Intellectual life.
- Indian Ocean--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Indian Ocean.
- Indian Ocean Region--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Indian Ocean Region.
- Islands of the Indian Ocean--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Islands of the Indian Ocean.
- Indian Ocean Region--Intellectual life.
- Indian Ocean Region--Social conditions.
- Indian Ocean Region--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction: New conjunctures in maritime imaginaries / Shanti Moorthy and Ashraf Jamal
- Fabulation : flying carpets and artful politics in the Indian Ocean / Stephen Muecke
- The Indian Ocean and the making of outback Australia : an ecocultural odyssey / Haripriya Rangan and Christian Kull
- Abdulrazak Gurnah and littoral cosmopolitanism / Shanti Moorthy
- Destined to disappear without a trace : gender and the languages of creolisation in the Indian Ocean, Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean / Fernando Rosa Ribeiro
- Commerce, circulation, and consumption : Indian Ocean communities in historical perspective / Lakshmi Subramanian
- Shared hopes, new worlds : Indians, Australians and Indonesians in the boycott of Dutch shipping, 1945-1949 / Heather Goodall
- "Signs of wonder" : the postmortem travels of Francis Xavier in the Indian Ocean world / Pamila Gupta
- Kuo Pao Kun's descendants of the eunuch admiral and the myth of modern Singapore / Susan Philip
- "That great ocean of idealism" : Calcutta, the Tagore circle, and the idea of Asia, 1900-1920 / Mark Ravinder Frost
- "Is it the same sea as back home"? : transformative complicities as traveling tropes in fictions from Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and South Africa / Miki Flockemann
- Making home on the Indian Ocean rim : relocations in South African literatures / Meg Samuelson
- A traveling science : anthropometry and colonialism in the Indian Ocean / Rochelle Pinto
- Whiteness in golden Goa : Linschoten on phenotype / Arun Saldanha
- Power and beliefs in Reunion Island / Christian Ghasarian
- Through magical flowers : tourism and Creole self-fashioning in La Reunion / David Picard
- Black bag / Ashraf Jamal
- Telling and selling on the Indian Ocean rim / Ashraf Jamal
- Post-orientalism / Stephen Muecke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415803908
- 041580390X
- OCLC:
- 373474618
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