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On the wonders of land and sea : Persianate travel writing / edited by Roberta Micallef and Sunil Sharma.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ilex Foundation series ; 10.
- Ilex Foundation series ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel in literature.
- Travelers' writings, Persian--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, Persian.
- Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings.
- Muslim travelers.
- Middle East--Description and travel.
- Middle East.
- India--Description and travel.
- India.
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Muslim travelers--Middle East.
- Muslim travelers--India.
- Muslim travelers--Europe.
- Literature.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Massachusetts : Ilex Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing initiates a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Persianate world from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume discuss travel narratives by male and female Muslim and Parsi/Zoroastrian travelers in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe. Focusing on the literary and linguistic aspects of the travelogues, the essays reveal links to traditional forms of narrating travel and the introduction of hybrid forms of discourse. The authors' methodological approach situates the texts in their socio-historical contexts and the travelers in their geographical locations, taking into account their gender and national identity. Each essay investigates a Muslim or Persianate traveler, whether sojourning in Europe or another part of the eastern world, and explores how the narrator represents what she or he sees while questioning the social and historical transformations accompanying modernity. The collection takes a major step toward a more sustained critical discussion of travelogues by Muslim travelers in dialogue with other Muslim, Persianate, and European travelers. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Roberta Micallef and Sunil Sharma: Introduction
- Daniel Sheffield: Iran, the mark of paradise or the land of ruin?: historical approaches to reading two Parsi Zoroastrian travelogues
- Mana Kia: Limning the land: social encounters and historical meaning in early nineteenth-century travelogues between Iran and India
- Omar Khalidi: An Indian passage to Europe: the travels of Mahdi Hasan Khan Fath Nawaz Jang
- Thomas Wide: Around the world in twenty-nine days: the travels, translations, and temptations of an Afghan dragoman
- Sunil Sharma: Delight and disgust: gendered encounters in the travelogues of the Fyzee sisters
- Daniel Majchrowicz: Ideological voyages: nationalism, colonialism and identity in the works of Qãzâ- âabdul affãr
- Roberta Micallef: From the house with wisteria to inside India: Halide Edib's journey to the symbolic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674073347
- 9780674073340
- OCLC:
- 812067735
- Publisher Number:
- 99956799668
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