Chasing Tales
Subtitle: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History of British Ideas about Afghanistan. (Studia Imagologica)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: September 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789042022621
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Afghanistan; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Journalism; Middle Eastern; Language Arts & Disciplines : Journalism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism : Middle Eastern
Description: Chasing 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 journa.