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Moving beyond the Eurocentric approach to travel narratives, this comprehensive and transformative account of the adventures of more than a dozen Persian travelers in the nineteenth century re-discovers and reclaims the world as seen through their rich travelogues, removing the colonial borders within which their narratives had been placed.
Sommario
1. Mr Shushtari travels to India; 2. Mirza Abu Taleb travels from India; 3. An Ilchi wonders about the world; 4. A colonial officer is turned upside down; 5. A Shirazi shares his travelogues; 6. A wandering monarch; 7. Hajj Sayyah leads a peripatetic life; 8. In the company of a refined prince; 9. A wandering mystic; 10. In and out of a homeland; 11. The fact and fiction of a homeland; 12. Professor Sayyah comes home to teach.
Info autore
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, as well as a founding member of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent including Iran: A People Interrupted (2007), Shi'ism: A Religion of Protest (2011), The World of Persia Literary Humanism (2012), Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene (2015), Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation (2016) and The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature (2019).
Riassunto
Moving beyond the Eurocentric approach to travel narratives, this comprehensive and transformative account of the adventures of more than a dozen Persian travelers in the nineteenth century re-discovers and reclaims the world as seen through their rich travelogues, removing the colonial borders within which their narratives had been placed.
