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Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity

Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity

Javed Majeed

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2007
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Historia de Asia
ISBN:
9781403985958

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Acknowledgements Introduction 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 Conclusion Bibliography

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