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..". brings new insights into the colonial relationship whilechallenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly Europeanperiod." -- Simon Gikandi Other Routes collects importantprimary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. Anintroduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perceptionof travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of newwritings that show that travel has been a human occupation that crosses time andculture. This original and significant book will interest armchair travelers andothers in views of people and places away from the European traveler'sgaze. Selections include "The Travels of a JapaneseMonk" (c. 838), "Al-Abdari, the Disgruntled Traveller" (c. 1290), "A Korean Official's Account of China" (1488), "The Poetry of Basho'sRoad" (1689), "Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British"(1890).

Book details

• Full title: Other Routes
• Subtitle: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
• Author: Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Justin D. Edwards
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780253218216
• ISBN: 0253218217
• ID: 11361783
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 476 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 133 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2005

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