World in Words - Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia

"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"--

List 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.

About the author

Daniel Majchrowicz is an assistant professor and director of the South Asia Research Forum at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2015. He is co-author of Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women (published 2022), and a previous recipient of Fulbright and Leverhulme grants.

Summary

This book is a definitive academic reference on the history of travel writing in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. This interdisciplinary study approaches the genre from both historical and literary perspectives. It is written in an informed but accessible style intended for both academic and informed lay-readers.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz, Daniel Joseph (Northwestern Universit Majchrowicz, Daniel Joseph (Northwestern University Majchrowicz
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781009340755
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934075-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Pakistan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Urdu, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Travel writing, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature & literary studies, Asian History, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, HISTORY / Asia / South / India