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.
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.
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 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. Most recently he is the author of Europe and Its Shadows (Pluto, 2019), Brown Skin, White Masks (Pluto, 2011) and Can Non-Europeans Think? (Zed, 2015).
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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