In <strong>The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau</strong> Antoinette Burton produces anotably intelligent and counterintuitive reading of the forgotten an... » 

In The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau Antoinette Burton produces anotably intelligent and counterintuitive reading of the forgotten andortrivialized genealogies of colonialpostcolonial cosmopolitanism. Focusing onthe career of a putatively minor writer with a complex relationship to theproject of decolonization Cold War politics U.S. civil rights movements andcorporate publishing Burton reinflects the ways we have been accustomed tothinking about gendered professionalism celebrity status minoritization andthe history of postcolonial theory. What is most impressive is the way that shemanages to make something densely textured and timely out of materials thatmight otherwise be relegated to antiquarian interest alone.Parama Royauthor of Indian Traffic Identities in Question in Colonial and PostcolonialIndia «