Autobiography, travel and postnational identity: gandhi, nehru and iqbal
Auteur :
Majeed, Javed
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349540495
Date de publication :
18 janv. 2007
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.