Chasing Tales: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History of British Ideas about Afghanistan. By Corinne Fowler
In this thoroughly researched and sharply intelligent analysis, Corinne Fowler is concerned with ‘understanding the cultural forces that have shaped British ideas about Afghanistan in the hope that the history of Anglo-Afghan contact will have a slightly reduced power to shape further misunderstandi...
| Published in: | Literature and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Literature and theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 108-110 |
| Review of: | Chasing Tales (Amsterdam : BRILL, 2007) (Fitzgerald, Timothy)
Chasing tales (Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007) (Fitzgerald, Timothy) Chasing tales (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Rodopi, 2007) (Fitzgerald, Timothy) |
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| Summary: | In this thoroughly researched and sharply intelligent analysis, Corinne Fowler is concerned with ‘understanding the cultural forces that have shaped British ideas about Afghanistan in the hope that the history of Anglo-Afghan contact will have a slightly reduced power to shape further misunderstandings’. Considering the context of Operation Enduring Freedom and the War on Terror, these misunderstandings have a pressing relevance. A major theme of the book is the legacy of this old colonialist tradition for late twentieth and early twenty-first century reporting, and the way in which essentialising images of Afghanistan are taken to ‘explain’ the unruly chaos and in which the civilizing forces of the west suppose are needed to save people who apparently have no clear agency of their own. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frn055 |