ISBN:
9780822374138
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (200 pages)
DDC:
303.4825406
Keywords:
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
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Indic fiction (English) History and criticism 20th century
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Postcolonialism
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Postcolonialism
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Postcolonialism
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Race in literature
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Race Political aspects
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Race Political aspects
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Race Political aspects
Abstract:
In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Burton contends, by using friction as a lens to expose the racial, class, gender, sexuality, caste, and political tensions throughout the postcolonial global South. Focusing on India's imagined relationship with Africa, Burton historicizes Africa's role in the emergence of a coherent postcolonial Indian identity. She shows how-despite Bandung's rhetoric of equality and brotherhood-Indian identity echoed colonial racial hierarchies in its subordination of Africans and blackness. Underscoring Indian anxiety over Africa and challenging the narratives and dearly held assumptions that presume a sentimentalized, nostalgic, and fraternal history of Afro-Asian solidarity, Burton demonstrates the continued need for anti-heroic, vexed, and fractious postcolonial critique
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822374138
URL:
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