Indian Ocean Studies

Preface Michael Pearson 1. Introduction: New Conjunctures in Maritime Imaginaries Shanti Moorthy and Ashraf Jamal 2. Fabulation: Flying Carpets and Artful Politics in the Indian Ocean Stephen Muecke 3. The Indian Ocean and the Making of Outback Australia: An Ecocultural Odyssey Haripriya Rangan and Christian Kull 4. Contesting History: Have We Ever Been Cosmopolitan? Shanti Moorthy 5. Destined to Disappear Without a Trace: Gender and the Languages of Creolisation in the Indian Ocean, Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean Fernando Rosa Ribeiro 6. Commerce, Circulation and Consumption: Indian Ocean Communities in Historical Perspective Lakshmi Subramanian 7. Shared Hopes: New Worlds: Indians, Australians & Indonesians in the Boycott of Dutch Shipping 1945 â" 1949 Heather Goodall 8. âSigns of Wonderâ: The Postmortem Travels of Francis Xavier in the Indian Ocean World Pamila Gupta 9. Kuo Pao Kunâs Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral and the Myth of Modern Singapore Susan Philip 10. âThe Great Ocean of Idealismâ: Calcutta, the Tagore Circle and the Idea of Asia, 1900-1920 Mark Ravinder Frost 11. âIs It the Same Sea as Back Home?â Transformative Complicities as Traveling Tropes in Fictions from Sri Lanka, Mauritius and South Africa" Miki Flockemann 12. Making Home on the Indian Ocean Rim: Re-Locations in South African Literatures Meg Samuelson 13. A Traveling Science: Anthropometry and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean Rochelle Pinto 14. Whiteness in Golden Goa: Linschoten on Phenotype Arun Saldanha 15. Power and Beliefs in Reunion Island Christian Ghasarian 16. Through Magical Flowers: Tourism and Creole Self-fashioning in La Reunion David Picard 17. Black Bag Ashraf Jamal 18. Telling and Selling on the Indian Ocean Rim Ashraf Jamal 19. Post-Orientalism Stephen Muecke