Desai Desai
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desai Desai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desai |
| FAMILY NAME | Desai |
| SIGNATURE | DESAI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | English and Foreign Languages University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ambiguity is the driving force or the nuclear reaction behind my creativity”: An E-conversation with M. G. Vassanji
Asian African Literatures: Genealogies in the Making
This essay contextualizes the Special Issue on Asian African Literatures by first discussing the terminology of “Asian” in the context of African identities. It then presents a brief genealogy of Asian African literary production in East and South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century. While a number of scholars have increasingly paid attention to Asian writing in Africa since the 1960s, less is known about such literary activities in…
Commerce as Romance: Nanji Kalidas Mehta's Dream Half-Expressed
This article is a study of the autobiography of Nanji Kalidas Mehta (1887– 1969), a Gujarati entrepreneur who arrived in East Africa as a young boy and retired in his old age as the founder of a major multinational conglomerate, the Mehta Group of Companies. I locate in his autobiography one of the mythological charters of the Indian presence in Africa–that of commerce as romance. My reading highlights Mehta’s self-fashioning not only as a man of…
Asian African Literatures: Genealogies in the Making
This essay contextualizes the Special Issue on Asian African Literatures by first discussing the terminology of “Asian” in the context of African identities. It then presents a brief genealogy of Asian African literary production in East and South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century. While a number of scholars have increasingly paid attention to Asian writing in Africa since the 1960s, less is known about such literary activities in…
Commerce as Romance: Nanji Kalidas Mehta's Dream Half-Expressed
This article is a study of the autobiography of Nanji Kalidas Mehta (1887– 1969), a Gujarati entrepreneur who arrived in East Africa as a young boy and retired in his old age as the founder of a major multinational conglomerate, the Mehta Group of Companies. I locate in his autobiography one of the mythological charters of the Indian presence in Africa–that of commerce as romance. My reading highlights Mehta’s self-fashioning not only as a man of…
Ambiguity is the driving force or the nuclear reaction behind my creativity”: An E-conversation with M. G. Vassanji
Asian African Literatures: Genealogies in the Making
This essay contextualizes the Special Issue on Asian African Literatures by first discussing the terminology of “Asian” in the context of African identities. It then presents a brief genealogy of Asian African literary production in East and South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century. While a number of scholars have increasingly paid attention to Asian writing in Africa since the 1960s, less is known about such literary activities in…
Commerce as Romance: Nanji Kalidas Mehta's Dream Half-Expressed
This article is a study of the autobiography of Nanji Kalidas Mehta (1887– 1969), a Gujarati entrepreneur who arrived in East Africa as a young boy and retired in his old age as the founder of a major multinational conglomerate, the Mehta Group of Companies. I locate in his autobiography one of the mythological charters of the Indian presence in Africa–that of commerce as romance. My reading highlights Mehta’s self-fashioning not only as a man of…
Philosophy (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)