Pramod K Nayar

Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire

1830-1940

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers. It identifies the key modes through which the Indian traveller engaged with Europe and the world-from aesthetic evaluations to cosmopolitan nationalist perceptions, from exoticism to a keen sense of connected and global histories. These modes are constitutive of the identity of the traveller. The book demonstrates how the Indian traveller defied the prescriptive category of the 'imperial subject' and fashions himself through this multilayered engagement with England, Europe and the world in different identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9789389000931
• ISBN-10: 9389000939
• Artikelnr.: 58462975

Autorenporträt

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Travel and Self-fashioning in the Age of
Empire 2. Colonial Subjects and Their Dislocated Aesthetics 3. The
Occidental Exotic 4. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire 5. The
Globalectic Imagination and Connected Histories 6. Conclusion: The
Antinomies of Travel in the Age of Empire Bibliography Index About the
Author