The United States of India

• Verfasst von: Desai, Manan [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The United States of India
• Titelzusatz: anticolonial literature and transnational refraction
• Verf.angabe: Manan Desai
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: x, 247 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Asian American history and culture
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-1889-0
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-1891-3
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-1890-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)USA / (s)Indienbild / (s)Literatur
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Desai, Manan, 1980-: United States of India. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2020 |(DLC)2019024306
• K10plus-PPN: 1676433473

Abstract

Introduction: an Indian in Washington -- Race Across Empires: Lajpat Rai's The United States of America -- The Indian Plot: Agnes Smedley and American Anti-colonialism -- Killing Kipling: Dhan Gopal Mukerji and America's India -- The Dark Alliance: Refracting India in W.E.B. Du Bois' Dark Princess -- Uncle Sham: Katherine Mayo's Mother India and Parodic Anti-Imperialism -- Afterword.

Abstract

"Reconstructs exchanges and interactions among networks of expatriate Indian and American authors as they struggled in similar yet distinct ways for an anticolonial future, attempting to reimagine and reshape the relationship between the U.S. and India during and immediately following World War I"--