The World in Words
Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 15 June 2023
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009340755 |
| ISBN10: | 1009340751 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 300 pages |
| Size: | 236x159x19 mm |
| Weight: | 480 g |
| Language: | English |
| 620 |
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Short description:
A literary and historical analysis of Urdu travel writing during the nineteenth century.
Long description:
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.
'The World in Words&&&160;maps with consummate skill the expansive, varied, and immensely popular genre of Urdu travel writing, tracing its development from princely pioneers to pious women, and from earnest seekers of knowledge to playful seekers of pleasure.&&&160;Sparkling, sophisticated, and immensely readable, this book delights, challenges our assumptions and widens our horizons just as travel accounts did for their Urdu readers.' Francesca Orsini, Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature, SOAS, University of London
'The World in Words&&&160;maps with consummate skill the expansive, varied, and immensely popular genre of Urdu travel writing, tracing its development from princely pioneers to pious women, and from earnest seekers of knowledge to playful seekers of pleasure.&&&160;Sparkling, sophisticated, and immensely readable, this book delights, challenges our assumptions and widens our horizons just as travel accounts did for their Urdu readers.' Francesca Orsini, Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature, SOAS, University of London
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction; Part I: 1. Bhavani Goes to Badrinath; 2. A Future Fit for a King; 3. The Travel Lesson; Part II: 4. Worldly Pleasures; 5. Seeking Sisterhood; 6. Border Crossings; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
