The world in words : travel writing and the global imagination in Muslim South Asia / Daniel Majchrowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Majchrowicz, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, Urdu--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, Urdu.

Urdu literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Urdu literature.

Urdu literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Urdu prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Urdu prose literature.

Women travelers--South Asia--History--19th century.

Women travelers.

Women travelers--South Asia--History--20th century.

Asia--Description and travel.

Asia.

Africa--Description and travel.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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.

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ISBN:

9781009340762 (ebook)

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