{"product_id":"africa-in-the-indian-imagination-race-and-the-politics-of-postcolonial-citation-paperback","title":"Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAntoinette Burton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfrica in the Indian Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written and edited many books, including \u003ci\u003eTen Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Studies and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles\u003c\/i\u003e, all also published by Duke University Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and the author of \u003ci\u003eGandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47565843726557,"sku":"9780822361671","price":54.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/b5VJ330H3o9780822361671.webp?v=1773305734","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/africa-in-the-indian-imagination-race-and-the-politics-of-postcolonial-citation-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}