TY - BOOK AU - Majchrowicz,Daniel TI - The world in words: travel writing and the global imagination in Muslim South Asia AV - PK2173.5.T73 U1 - 891.4390932 MAJ 23/eng/20230227 PY - 2023/// CY - Cambridge, New York, NY PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Travelers' writings, Urdu KW - History and criticism KW - Urdu literature KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Urdu prose literature KW - Women authors KW - Women travelers KW - South Asia KW - History KW - Asia KW - Description and travel KW - Africa KW - Literary criticism KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "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"-- UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009340762 ER -