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Gaurav Desai

Gaurav Desai is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library (Duke University Press, 2001) and editor of a number of books and special issues of journals. Among these are Teaching the African Novel (MLA, 2009) and Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism (Rutgers University Press, 2005) which he co-edited with Supriya Nair. His latest book on narratives of Indian Ocean connections between Africa and India, Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India and the Afrasian Imagination (Columbia University Press, 2013) received the 2014 Rene Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association.

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    Zanzibar in Ivoryton

    There is a small detail near the ending of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness that in the midst of the dramatic dialogue between Marlow and Kurtz’s Intended is often ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By Gaurav Desai

Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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