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Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan
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2023
Summary
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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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1165-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1166-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
206
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 1: Scandals Old and New: Alexander Gardner and Greg Mortenson No access Pages 11 - 40
Chapter 2: Boundaries and East India Co. Writers: George Forster, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Alexander Burnes, and Arthur Conolly No access Pages 41 - 72
Chapter 3: Oriental Tales from Poems and Legends to the Novel : Charles Masson, James Abbott, and Sir Henry Mortimer Durand No access Pages 73 - 98
Chapter 4: Hybridity, Frontier Marriages, and the New Woman: S. S. Thorburn, Maud Diver, Lillias Hamilton, and Morag Murray Abdullah No access Pages 99 - 144
Chapter 5: Anti-Imperialist Nostalgia and Writings of the 9/11 Era: Jason Elliot, Rory Stuart, Tamim Ansary, Saira Shah, and Khaled Hosseini No access Pages 145 - 174
