Autobiography, Travel & Postnational Identity
Subtitle: Narratives of Selfhood in Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal (Cambridge Imperial & Post Colonial Studies)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781403985958
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Nationalism; Political History; Biography & Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Biography/Autobiography; Asian - Indic; Literary Criticism / Asian / Indic; Asia - India & South Asia; Essays & Travelogues; Political; 1877-1938.; Autobiography; India; Iqbal, Muhammad,; Jåavåidnåamah; Nationalism and literature; Political aspects; Sir,
Description: "Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, how the idea of collective life can be drawn from a vision of the individual self, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in formulating the complex tie between inferiority and nationality in South Asia. A range of texts is analysed, from autobiographies to travelogues and poetry in English, Urdu and Persian, to show why the political thought of leading Indian nationalist figures and Muslim separatists was decisively articulated in their autobiographical narratives rather than through any other form of writing."--Jacket.