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Author Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-

Title The postcolonial careers of Santha Rama Rau / Antoinette Burton
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 214 pages)
Series Next wave
Next wave (Duke University Press)
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction: the East as a postcolonial career -- Cold War cosmopolitanism : the education of Santha Rama Rau in the age of Bandung, 1945-1960 -- Interpreting British India in Anglo-America : the cultural politics of Santha Rama Rau's A passage to India, 1960-2005 -- Home to India : cooking with Santha Rama Rau -- Epilogue: cosmopolitanism by any other name
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index
Notes English
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Subject Rama Rau, Santha, 1923-2009.
Rama Rau, Santha, 1923-2009
Women authors, Indic -- 20th century -- Biography
East Indian Americans -- Biography
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
East Indian Americans
Literature
Women authors, Indic
India -- In literature
India
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822390503
0822390507
1283035618
9781283035613
9786613035615
6613035610