The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2007
216 pages
978-0-8223-9050-3 (ISBN)
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Antoinette Burton uses a mid-twentieth-century Indian-American authors career to analyze broader issues of postwar Americas understanding of itself and the wider world.
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Antoinette Burton is the Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Among her books are the collections Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History; Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (with Tony Ballantyne); and After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, all of which are also published by Duke University Press.
Content
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
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
