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  title info:
    title: England re-oriented
    sub title: how central and south Asian travelers imagined the West, 1750-1857
  name:
    name part: Garcia, Humberto
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: What does the love between British imperialists and their Asian partners reveal about orientalism's social origins? To answer this question, Humberto Garcia focuses on westward-bound central and south Asian travel writers who have long been forgotten or dismissed by scholars. This bias has obscured how Joseph Emin, Sake Dean Mahomet, Sheikh I'tesamuddin, Abu Taleb Khan, Abul Hasan Khan, Yusuf Khan Kambalposh and Lutfullah Khan found in their conviviality with Englishwomen and men a strategy for inhabiting a critical agency that appropriated various media to make Europe commensurate with Asia. Drama, dance, masquerades, visual art, museum exhibits, music, postal letters and newsprint inspired these genteel men to recalibrate Persianate ways of behaving and knowing. Their cosmopolitanisms offer a unique window on an enchanted third space between empires in which Europe was peripheral to Islamic Indo-Eurasia. Their queer intimacies encrypt a mediated history of orientalist mimic men under the spell of a powerful Persian manhood.
  table of contents: Introduction: Why Re-Orient? -- One. The British Raj's Mimic Men: historicizing genteel masculinities across empires -- Two. A bluestocking romance: contesting British military masculinity in Joseph Emin's letters and memoir -- Three. The theater of Imperial Sovereignty: entertaining diplomatic failure in Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin's London travels -- Four. Loving Strangers in Ireland: Indo-Celtic masculinities in the travels of Dean Mahomet and Mirza Abu Taleb Khan -- Five. Female bodies in motion: performing sexual revolution in Mirza Abu Taleb Khan's theatrical metropolis -- Six. Dreaming with Fairyland: virtual magic in Yusuf Khan Kambalposh's travels to Victorian London -- Seven. 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.
  note: Humberto Garcia, University of California, Merced.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-336) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: ac-----
    geographic code: az-----
  subject:
    topic: Orientalism
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Sex role
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Travelers' writings
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Travel writers
    geographic: Asia, Central
  subject:
    topic: Travel writers
    geographic: South Asia
  subject:
    topic: Asians
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Description and travel
  classification: DS61.85 .G37 2020
  classification: 942.07/3
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200324
    record change date: 20210422111209.0
    record identifier: in00004431492