Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity

Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8595-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in formulating the complex tie between interiority and nationality in South Asia.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Majeed, Javed

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Native Travelees Nationalism's Travelling Autobiographies and Indian Travelogues Travel and Modernity A Strange and Uncharted Land The Aporia of Muslim Nationalism Gandhi's Vulnerability Gandhi, 'Truth' and Translatability A Reluctant Admission of the Reality of the Self Conclusion Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

JAVED MAJEED is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at King's College, London. His previous publications include (1992) and with Christopher Shackle (1997).