RT Book
T1 The world in words: travel writing and the global imagination in Muslim South Asia
A1 Majchrowicz, Daniel ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PP Cambridge ; New York, NY
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1839659130
AB 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.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2023)
SN 9781009340762
SN 9781009340755
K1 Travelers' writings, Urdu : History and criticism
K1 Urdu literature : History and criticism : 19th century
K1 Urdu literature : History and criticism : 20th century
K1 Urdu prose literature : Women authors : History and criticism
K1 Women travelers : History : 19th century : South Asia
K1 Women travelers : History : 20th century : South Asia
K1 Literary Criticism
K1 Asia : Description and travel
K1 Africa : Description and travel
DO 10.1017/9781009340762