The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009340755)

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.

Author: Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz
ISBN-10: 1009340751
ISBN-13: 9781009340755
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2023
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.30w x 0.87d