Indian Ocean Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives
Redaktion: Moorthy, Shanti; Jamal, Ashraf

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Famously referred to as the "cradle of globalization," the Indian Ocean has received increasing attention from scholars. However, few have examined the 'human' dimensions of the ocean. In this volume, historians, geographers, anthropologists and literary analysts each address a specific human factor in Indian Ocean exchanges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135269029
• Artikelnr.: 47890728

Autorenporträt

Ashraf Jamal is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, South Africa. He has published numerous essays and monographs, namely Predicaments of Culture in South Africa and the co-authored Art in South Africa: The Future Present. With Shanti Moorthy he has edited an anthology of Southeast Asian fiction. He is also a director-playwright and fiction writer. Shanti Moorthy holds a medical degree from Melbourne University and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Formerly a dancer and nattuvanar with the Melbourne based Bharatam Dance Company and freelance scriptwriter for the Bombay based Antah UTV in Malaysia, Shanti is now a consultant otolaryngologist and Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at Monash University. She co-edited the final volume of Silverfish New Writing 7 in 2007 with Ashraf Jamal and is completing an MA in English Literature, situating the works of Abdulrazak Gurnah in the Indian Ocean World.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Michael Pearson 1. Introduction: New Conjunctures in Maritime
Imaginaries Shanti Moorthy and Ashraf Jamal 2. Fabulation: Flying Carpets
and Artful Politics in the Indian Ocean Stephen Muecke 3. The Indian Ocean
and the Making of Outback Australia: An Ecocultural Odyssey Haripriya
Rangan and Christian Kull 4. Contesting History: Have We Ever Been
Cosmopolitan? Shanti Moorthy 5. Destined to Disappear Without a Trace:
Gender and the Languages of Creolisation in the Indian Ocean, Africa,
Brazil, and the Caribbean Fernando Rosa Ribeiro 6. Commerce, Circulation
and Consumption: Indian Ocean Communities in Historical Perspective
Lakshmi Subramanian 7. Shared Hopes: New Worlds: Indians, Australians &
Indonesians in the Boycott of Dutch Shipping 1945 - 1949 Heather Goodall
8. 'Signs of Wonder': The Postmortem Travels of Francis Xavier in the
Indian Ocean World Pamila Gupta 9. Kuo Pao Kun's Descendants of the Eunuch
Admiral and the Myth of Modern Singapore Susan Philip 10. 'The Great Ocean
of Idealism': Calcutta, the Tagore Circle and the Idea of Asia, 1900-1920
Mark Ravinder Frost 11. 'Is It the Same Sea as Back Home?' Transformative
Complicities as Traveling Tropes in Fictions from Sri Lanka, Mauritius and
South Africa" Miki Flockemann 12. Making Home on the Indian Ocean Rim:
Re-Locations in South African Literatures Meg Samuelson 13. A Traveling
Science: Anthropometry and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean Rochelle Pinto
14. Whiteness in Golden Goa: Linschoten on Phenotype Arun Saldanha 15.
Power and Beliefs in Reunion Island Christian Ghasarian 16. Through Magical
Flowers: Tourism and Creole Self-fashioning in La Reunion David Picard 17.
Black Bag Ashraf Jamal 18. Telling and Selling on the Indian Ocean Rim
Ashraf Jamal 19. Post-Orientalism Stephen Muecke