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Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan
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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.
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Yes, you can access Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan by Zubeda Jalalzai in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism for Women Authors. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Scandals Old and New: Alexander Gardner and Greg Mortenson
- 2 Boundaries and East India Co. Writers: George Forster, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Alexander Burnes, and Arthur Conolly
- 3 Oriental Tales from Poems and Legends to the Novel : Charles Masson, James Abbott, and Sir Henry Mortimer Durand
- 4 Hybridity, Frontier Marriages, and the New Woman: S. S. Thorburn, Maud Diver, Lillias Hamilton, and Morag Murray Abdullah
- 5 Anti-Imperialist Nostalgia and Writings of the 9/11 Era: Jason Elliot, Rory Stuart, Tamim Ansary, Saira Shah, and Khaled Hosseini
- Conclusion: Contemporary Fiction and How to Write about Afghanistan
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author