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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792134003321

Autore

Majeed Javed

Titolo

Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity [[electronic resource] ] : Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal / / by Javed Majeed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

1-283-18016-2

9786613180162

0-230-28681-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1633

Disciplina

954.03/50922

954.0350922

Soggetti

Sociology

Literature   

Asia—History

Oriental literature

History, Modern

Sociology, general

Postcolonial/World Literature

Asian History

Asian Literature

History of South Asia

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-303) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Native Travelees; 2 Nationalism's Travelling Autobiographies and Indian Travelogues; 3 Travel and Modernity; 4 A Strange and Uncharted Land; 5 The Aporia of Muslim Nationalism; 6 Gandhi's Vulnerability; 7 Gandhi, 'Truth' and Translatability; 8 A Reluctant Admission of the Reality of the Self; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.