TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majchrowicz,Daniel
TI  - The world in words: travel writing and the global imagination in Muslim South Asia 
SN  - 9781009340755
AV  - PK2173.5.T73 M35 2023
U1  - 891.4/390932 23/eng/20230227
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Travelers' writings, Urdu
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Urdu literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Urdu prose literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Women travelers
KW  - South Asia
KW  - History
KW  - Asia
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Africa
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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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