Indian Ocean Studies: Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives

by Moorthy; Shanti

• ISBN13: 9780415803908
• ISBN10: 041580390X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xi
Preface	p. xiv
Introduction: New Conjunctures in Maritime Imaginaries	p. 1
Tabulation: Flying Carpets and Artful Politics in the Indian Ocean	p. 32
The Indian Ocean and the Making of Outback Australia: An Ecocultural Odyssey	p. 45
Abdulrazak Gurnah and Littoral Cosmopolitanism	p. 73
Destined to Disappear Without a Trace: Gender and the Languages of Creolisation in the Indian Ocean, Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean	p. 103
Commerce, Circulation, and Consumption: Indian Ocean Communities in Historical Perspective	p. 136
Shared Hopes, New Worlds: Indians, Australians, and Indonesians in the Boycott of Dutch Shipping, 1945-1949	p. 158
"Signs of Wonder": The Postmortem Travels of Francis Xavier in the Indian Ocean World	p. 197
Kuo Pao Kun's Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral and the Myth of Modern Singapore	p. 229
"That Great Ocean of Idealism": Calcutta, the Tagore Circle, and the Idea of Asia, 1900-1920	p. 251
"Is It the Same Sea As Back Home? ": Transformative Complicities As Travelling Tropes in Fictions from Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and South Africa	p. 280
Making Home on the Indian Ocean Rim: Relocations in South African Literatures	p. 298
A Travelling Science: Anthropometry and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean	p. 318
Whiteness in Golden Goa: Linschoten on Phenotype	p. 339
Power and Beliefs in Reunion Island	p. 360
Through Magical Flowers: Tourism and Creole Self-fashioning in La Reunion	p. 374
Black Bag	p. 397
Telling and Selling on the Indian Ocean Rim	p. 403
Post-Orientalism	p. 418
Contributors	p. 421
Index	p. 427
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