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"This is a book about travelers-a group of twelve travelers who roamed around the globe mostly in the Nineteenth but some a bit earlier and some a bit after that crucial century. Somewhere between the Apostolic twelve and the twelve Shi'i Imams, this book determined the course of its narrative. Some of these travelers have been individually or in pairs of two or three studied before-but in this collective gathering, and with the totality of their written prose (and not just the fragment that deals with Europe) have never been examined in this particular manner that I do here in this book. These travelers wrote their travelogues in Persian, my mother tongue, and I write this book about them in English, the colonial language we postcolonial subjects have inherited from our conquerors and made our own. When I am done writing this book and it is published, it can be read by people throughout the world, in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and then in immigrant communities around the planet-not because anyone one of them is British, but because they and their ancestors were the subjects of British imperialism. These travelers have been abused by generations of their readers who have reduced

Author

Dabashi, Hamid

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108768986