Bibliograph

The world in words, travel writing and the global imagination in Muslim South Asia, Daniel Majchrowicz

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The world in words, travel writing and the global imagination in Muslim South Asia, Daniel Majchrowicz

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The world in words

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1371285166

Responsibility statement

Daniel Majchrowicz

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

travel writing and the global imagination in Muslim South Asia

Summary

Based on over a decade of original archival research, this book shows how Urdu travel writing gave voice to a global imagination that reflected the ambition and aspiration of Indians and Pakistanis as they negotiated their place in the changing world of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this interdisciplinary study, author Daniel Majchrowicz traces the social and literary history of the Urdu travelogue from 1840 to 1990 in six chronological chapters. Each chapter asks how travel writers used the genre to give meaning to the shifting social and political realities of their colonial and postcolonial worlds. The book particularly highlights the role of women writers in the production of a global imagination in Urdu with an emphasis on travel writing on Asia and Africa.--, Provided by publisher

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