The world in words : travel writing and the global imagination in Muslim South Asia / Daniel Majchrowicz.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023Description: xvii, 262 pages : illustrations (black & white)Content type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781009340762
- Travelers' writings, Urdu -- History and criticism
- Urdu literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Urdu literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Urdu prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Women travelers -- South Asia -- History -- 19th century
- Women travelers -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century
- Asia -- Description and travel
- Africa -- Description and travel
- 891.4390932 MAJ 23/eng/20230227 020842
- PK2173.5.T73
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--
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