1st Edition
Cosmopolitan Asia Littoral Epistemologies of the Global South
Introduction Sharmani Patricia Gabriel and Fernando Rosa 1. Migration, transnationalism, and modernity: Thinking of Kerala’s many Cosmopolitanisms J. Devika 2. ‘Beyond the limits of nation and geography’: Rabindranath Tagore and the cosmopolitan moment, 1916–1920 Mark R. Frost 3. Tamils and Greater India: Some issues of connected histories Lakshmi Subramanian 4. Creole Hadramis in the Malay world in the 1800s: Fragments of biographies and connected histories Sumit K. Mandal 5. Malang cosmopolitanisms of the 1960s Melani Budianta 6. Crossing the Indian Ocean and wading through the littoral: Cosmopolitan visions in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘antique land’ and ‘tide country’ Meg Samuelson 7. Contesting imagined communities: Politics of script and Tai cosmopolitanism in upland Vietnam Yukti Mukdawijitra 8. Bayam, the cosmopolitan: Postcolonial ecologies of the amaranth Christopher Lloyd De Shield 9. Cultural Cosmopolitanisms in the Malaysian Theatre Susan Philip 10. Cosmopolitanism without empire? Tense and tender ties in Don Lee’s Country of Origin Chih-ming Wang Conclusion
Biography
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Fernando Rosa is a researcher in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
