{"product_id":"literary-license-and-the-west-s-romance-with-afghanistan-9781666911657","title":"Literary License and the West’s Romance with","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary License and the West's Romance with Afghanistan analyzes the role literature and poetic sensibility played in colonial British and American writings on Afghanistan from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. It also considers the role that literature and literariness, itself, have played in western discourses framing Afghanistan. The British Romantic Orientalists of the 19th century studied the region in-depth and were drawn to what they perceived as an alien space where they could remake themselves in print and in life. These writers and those who followed including scholars, civil servants, and wives or professional women were inspired by the region and sometimes crossed ethnic, national, and imaginative boundaries. This book explores the connections that were forged in print through fantastic and familiar assumptions regarding the region and its people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Scandals Old and New Alexander Gardner and Greg Mortenson \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Drawing Boundaries: Early East India Co. Writers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Forster, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Alexander Burnes, and Arthur Conolly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Oriental Tales: from Poems and Legends to the Novel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Masson, James Abbott, Sir Mortimer Durand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Hybridity, Frontier Marriages, and the New Woman: S. S. Thorburn, Maud Diver, Lillias Hamilton, and Morag Murray Abdullah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Romance of Return: Anti-Imperialist Nostalgia and Writings of the 9\/11 Era Jason Elliot, Rory Stuart, Tamim Ansary, Saira Shah, Khaled Hosseini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Lessons Learned? New Fiction from Afghanistan, and how to write about Afghanistan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042007974231,"sku":"9781666911657","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666911657.jpg?v=1750952597","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-license-and-the-west-s-romance-with-afghanistan-9781666911657","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}