The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau Tapa blanda - 2007

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"In "The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau," Antoinette Burton produces a notably intelligent and counterintuitive reading of the forgotten and/or trivialized genealogies of colonial/postcolonial cosmopolitanism. Focusing on the career of a putatively minor writer with a complex relationship to the project of decolonization, Cold War politics, U.S. civil rights movements, and corporate publishing, Burton re-inflects the ways we have been accustomed to thinking about gendered professionalism, celebrity status, minoritization, and the history of postcolonial theory. What is most impressive is the way that she manages to make something densely textured and timely out of materials that might otherwise be relegated to antiquarian interest alone."--Parama Roy, author of "Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India"