England Re-Oriented

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-79725-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Critical Perspectives on Empire

What does the love between British imperialists and their Asian male partners reveal about orientalism's social origins? To answer this question, Humberto Garcia focuses on westward-bound Central and South Asian travel writers who have long been forgotten or  dismissed by scholars. This bias has obscured how Joseph Emin, Sake Dean Mahomet, Shaykh I'tesamuddin, Abu Talib Khan, Abul Hassan Khan, Yusuf Khan Kambalposh, and Lutfullah Khan found in their conviviality with Englishwomen and men a strategy for inhabiting a critical agency that appropriated various media to make Europe commensurate with Asia. Drama, dance, masquerades, visual art, museum exhibits, music, postal letters, and newsprint inspired these genteel men to recalibrate Persianate ways of behaving and knowing. Their cosmopolitanisms offer a unique window on an enchanted third space between empires in which Europe was peripheral to Islamic Indo-Eurasia. Encrypted in their mediated homosocial intimacies is a queer history of orientalist mimic men under the spell of a powerful Persian manhood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garcia, Humberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why Re-Orient?; 1. The British Raj's Mimic Men: Historicizing Genteel Masculinities across Empires 2. A Bluestocking Romance: Contesting British Military Masculinity in Joseph Emin's Letters and Memoir; 3. The Theater of Imperial Sovereignty: Entertaining Diplomatic Failure in Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin's London Travels; 4. Loving Strangers in Ireland: Indo-Celtic Masculinities in the Travels of Dean Mahomet and Mirza Abu Taleb Khan; 5. Female Bodies in Motion: Performing Sexual Revolution in Mirza Abu Taleb Khan's Theatrical Metropolis; 6. Dreaming with Fairyland: Virtual Magic in Yusuf Khan Kambalposh's Travels to Victorian London; 7. The Making of a Munshi Patriot: Lutfullah Khan, the Indian Mutiny, and Victorian Newsprint; Epilogue: Mirza Abul Hasan Khan, James Morier, and the Queering of Hajji Baba; Appendix A: Abu Taleb's “Treatise on Ethics”; Appendix B: Excerpts from Abu Taleb Khan's Diwan-i-Talib; Appendix C: Letter by moonshee Lutfullah

Über Autor(innen)

Garcia, Humberto
Humberto Garcia is Associate Professor and Vincent Hillyer Chair of Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 (2012).