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

• Autore: Majeed Javed
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 954.03/50922; 954.0350922
• Soggetto topico: Sociology; Literature ; Asia—History; Oriental literature; History, Modern; Sociology, general; Postcolonial/World Literature; Asian History; Asian Literature; History of South Asia; Modern History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity
• ISBN: 1-283-18016-2; 9786613180162; 0-230-28681-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792134003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, . 2635-1633