Autobiography, travel and postnational identity : Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal /

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 vison of the individual self, and how...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Majeed, Javed
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects:
Gandhi, > Mahatma, > 1869-1948.
Nehru, Jawaharlal, > 1889-1964.
Iqbal, Muhammad, > Sir, > 1877-1938. > Jāvīdnāmah.
Gandhi, > Mahatma, > 1869-1948
Nehru, Jawaharlal, > 1889-1964
Jāvīdnāmah (Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir)
Autobiography > Political aspects > India.
Nationalism and literature > India.
Autobiographie > Aspect politique > Inde.
Nationalisme et littérature > Inde.
Asian history > India.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 > India.
Nationalism > India.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
History.
Nationalism and literature
India
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Native travelees
  • Nationalism's travelling autobiographies and Indian travelogues
  • Travel and modernity
  • A strange and uncharted land
  • The aporia of Muslim nationalism
  • Gandhi's vulnerability
  • Gandhi, 'truth' and translatability
  • A reluctant admission of the reality of the self.

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