Chasing tales : : travel writing, journalism and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan / / Corinne Fowler.
Chasing Tales is the first exclusive study of journalism, travel writing and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan. It offers a timely investigation of the notional Afghanistan(s) that have prevailed in the popular British imagination. Casting its net deep into the nineteenth century, the s...
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| Superior document: | Studia imagologica ; 12 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studia imagologica ;
12. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Preface
- Introduction
- Hanging old stories on the necks of new characters: the legacy of nineteenth-century Afghan-British encounters.
- Where ethnographers fear to tread: the counterinfluence of classical ethnography on travel writing and journalism about Afghanistan.
- Retailing insight: reporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
- De-mining the terrain of Afghan-British encounter.
- Endnotes
- Appendix One
- Bibliography of Primary Texts
- Index.