LEADER 03787nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910809919903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-26557-1 010 $a9786612265570 010 $a94-012-0487-X 010 $a1-4356-1259-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401204873 035 $a(CKB)1000000000480524 035 $a(EBL)556661 035 $a(OCoLC)182863837 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000120273 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11999580 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120273 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080874 035 $a(PQKB)10045309 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556661 035 $a(OCoLC)182863837$z(OCoLC)649903202$z(OCoLC)666984316$z(OCoLC)714567354$z(OCoLC)764535899$z(OCoLC)842278994$z(OCoLC)847112553 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401204873 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556661 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380177 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL226557 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000480524 100 $a20071003d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChasing tales $etravel writing, journalism and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan /$fCorinne Fowler 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York, NY $cRodopi$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 225 1 $aStudia imagologica ;$v12 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2262-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Preface -- Introduction -- Hanging old stories on the necks of new characters: the legacy of nineteenth-century Afghan-British encounters. -- Where ethnographers fear to tread: the counterinfluence of classical ethnography on travel writing and journalism about Afghanistan. -- Retailing insight: reporting Operation Enduring Freedom. -- De-mining the terrain of Afghan-British encounter. -- Endnotes -- Appendix One -- Bibliography of Primary Texts -- Index. 330 $aChasing Tales is the first exclusive study of journalism, travel writing and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan. It offers a timely investigation of the notional Afghanistan(s) that have prevailed in the popular British imagination. Casting its net deep into the nineteenth century, the study investigates the country?s mythologisation by scrutinising travel narratives, literary fiction and British news media coverage of the recent conflict in Afghanistan. This highly topical book explores the legacy of nineteenth-century paranoias and prejudices to contemporary travellers and journalists and seeks to explain why Afghans continue to be depicted as medieval, murderous, warlike and unruly. Its title, Chasing Tales , conveys the circulation, and indeed the circularity, of ideas commonly found in British travel writing and journalism. The ?tales? component stresses the pivotal role played by fictionalised sources, especially the writing of Rudyard Kipling, in perpetuating traumatic nineteenth-century memories of Afghan-British encounter. The subject matter is compelling and its foci of interest profoundly relevant both to current political debates and to scholarly enquiry about the ethics of travel. 410 0$aStudia imagologica ;$v12. 606 $aTravelers' writings, British 607 $aAfghanistan$xDescription and travel 607 $aAfghanistan$xPress coverage$zGreat Britain 607 $aAfghanistan$xHistory 615 0$aTravelers' writings, British. 676 $a915.8104 700 $aFowler$b Corinne$01649248 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809919903321 996 $aChasing tales$93997891 997 $aUNINA