Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau

Informationen zum Autor Antoinette Burton Klappentext Focuses on the "minor" but resonant career of a woman from India living in the U.S. to investigate political and historical questions about high and low culture, gender, cosmopolitan identity as it relates to empire, and the career of orientalis Zusammenfassung Antoinette Burton uses a mid-twentieth-century Indian-American author s career to analyze broader issues of postwar America s understanding of itself and the wider world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The East as a Postcolonial Career 1 1. Cold War Cosmopolitanism: The Education of Santha Rama Rau in the Age of Bandung, 1945–1960 32 2. Interpreting British India in Anglo-America: The Cultural Politics of Santha Rama Rau’s A Passage to India, 1960x2005 71 3. Home to India: Cooking with Santha Rama Rau 109 Epilogue: Cosmopolitanism by Any Other Name 145 Notes 153 Selected Bibliography 195 Index 209

Product details

• Authors: Antoinette Burton, Antoinette M. Burton
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2007
• EAN: 9780822340713
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4071-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: Women's Studies Bey; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: Women's Studies Bey
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies