Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Literary License and the West's Romance with Afghanistan analyzes the role literature and poetic sensibility played in colonial British and American writings on Afghanistan from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. It also considers the role that literature and literariness, itself, have played in western discourses framing Afghanistan. The British Romantic Orientalists of the 19th century studied the region in-depth and were drawn to what they perceived as an alien space where they could remake themselves in print and in life. These writers and those who followed including scholars, civil servants, and wives or professional women were inspired by the region and sometimes crossed ethnic, national, and imaginative boundaries. This book explores the connections that were forged in print through fantastic and familiar assumptions regarding the region and its people.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-15
Mått:159 x 236 x 21 mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666911657

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Zubeda Jalalzai is professor of English at Rhode Island College in Providence.

Recensioner i media

This study is both broad and detailed, ranging from East India Company writings about Afghanistan to more recent works about Afghanistan, their controversies and their reception. A recommended read for anyone interested in the history of ideas about the country and the many conflicts that have been fought on Afghan soil.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1: Scandals Old and New Alexander Gardner and Greg Mortenson Chapter 2: Drawing Boundaries: Early East India Co. Writers George Forster, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Alexander Burnes, and Arthur ConollyChapter 3: Oriental Tales: from Poems and Legends to the Novel Charles Masson, James Abbott, Sir Mortimer DurandChapter 4: Hybridity, Frontier Marriages, and the New Woman: S. S. Thorburn, Maud Diver, Lillias Hamilton, and Morag Murray AbdullahChapter 5: The Romance of Return: Anti-Imperialist Nostalgia and Writings of the 9/11 Era Jason Elliot, Rory Stuart, Tamim Ansary, Saira Shah, Khaled HosseiniConclusion: Lessons Learned? New Fiction from Afghanistan, and how to write about AfghanistanBibliographyAbout the author