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Through engaging characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, a French teacher in America, Arab students in Moscow, a Japanese woman writer in Europe—Illusion and Disillusionment examines travel writing beyond colonialism, imperialism, and Orientalism, focusing on the experience of travel itself.

Illusion and Disillusionment

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    A Paperback / softback by Roberta Micallef

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 17/09/2018
      ISBN13: 9780674984479, 978-0674984479
      ISBN10: 0674984471

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      Book Synopsis
      Through engaging characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, a French teacher in America, Arab students in Moscow, a Japanese woman writer in Europe—Illusion and Disillusionment examines travel writing beyond colonialism, imperialism, and Orientalism, focusing on the experience of travel itself.

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