England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750-1857

ISBN-13: 9781108797252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 366 str.

Humberto Garcia

Opis

Between 1750 and 1857, westward-bound Central and South Asian travelers connected imperial Britain to Persian Indo-Eurasia by performing queer masculinities.

Recenzje

'Tracking the experiences of seven remarkable Islamicate travelers in Georgian and Victorian Britain, Garcia devises new strategies for analyzing intercultural performance, hybrid textuality, colonial masculinity, and imperial display that will set a new bar for archival subtlety and theoretical acumen among scholars of global cultural and social exchange.' Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph

Spis treści

Introduction: Why Re-Orient?; 1. The British Raj's Mimic Men: Historicizing Genteel Masculinities across Empires 2. A Bluestocking Romance: Contesting British Military Masculinity in Joseph Emin's Letters and Memoir; 3. The Theater of Imperial Sovereignty: Entertaining Diplomatic Failure in Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin's London Travels; 4. Loving Strangers in Ireland: Indo-Celtic Masculinities in the Travels of Dean Mahomet and Mirza Abu Taleb Khan; 5. Female Bodies in Motion: Performing Sexual Revolution in Mirza Abu Taleb Khan's Theatrical Metropolis; 6. Dreaming with Fairyland: Virtual Magic in Yusuf Khan Kambalposh's Travels to Victorian London; 7. The Making of a Munshi Patriot: Lutfullah Khan, the Indian Mutiny, and Victorian Newsprint; Epilogue: Mirza Abul Hasan Khan, James Morier, and the Queering of Hajji Baba; Appendix A: Abu Taleb's “Treatise on Ethics”; Appendix B: Excerpts from Abu Taleb Khan's Diwān-i-Tālib; Appendix C: Letter by moonshee Lutfullah