Imperfect solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone
Publication details: Northwestern University Press, 2020. Ebvanston:Description: xviii, 207p.; pbk; 23cmISBN:- 9780810142664
- 820.9358 LAH
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Includes notes, bibliography and index
A century ago, activists confronting racism and colonialism—in India, South Africa, and Black America—used print media to connect with one another. Then, as now, the most effective medium for their undertakings was the English language. Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone tells the story of this interconnected Anglophone world. Through Rabindranath Tagore’s writings on China, Mahatma Gandhi’s recollections of South Africa, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s invocations of India, Madhumita Lahiri theorizes print internationalism. This methodology requires new terms within the worldwide hegemony of the English language (“the global Anglophone”) in order to encourage alternate geographies (such as the Global South) and new collectivities (such as people of color).\
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