Introduction: Indian Ocean Trajectories

Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2018

“…Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies ’ special issue on Indian Ocean Trajectories also seeks to extend the “limited and predictable supercanon of Indian Ocean texts”. It offers interdisciplinary close readings of East African texts which demonstrate Africa’s historical encounter with the East as well as the West while resisting the romanticisation of such Indian Ocean relations by drawing attention to historical examples in these relations that involved enslavement and imperialism (Mwangi and Steiner, 2018: 161–162).…”