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Chasing tales : travel writing, journalism and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan /
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 s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Studia imagologica ;
12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chasing Tales: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History of British Ideas about Afghanistan; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part One Hanging old stories on the necks of new characters: the legacy of nineteenth-century Afghan-British encounters; Part Two Where ethnographers fear to tread: the counter influence of classical ethnography on travel writing and journalism about Afghanistan; Part Three Retailing insight: reporting Operation Enduring Freedom; Conclusion De-mining the terrain of Afghan-British encounter; Endnotes; Appendix One.