Cosmopolitan Fantasies, Aesthetics, and Bodily Value: W. E. B. Du Bois's <em>Dark Princess</em> and the Trans/Gendering of Kautilya

<p>The recent turn to a transnational American literary cosmopolitanism, coupled with efforts to move beyond what Paul Gilroy calls “ethnic absolutes,” have generated a resurgence of interest in W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1928 romance novel, Dark Princess. In addition, the last two decades have witnes...

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Main Author: Vermonja R Alston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2011-03-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r74n6wq