Taken for Wonder by Naghmeh Sohrabi, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Taken for Wonder by Naghmeh Sohrabi, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Taken for Wonder by Naghmeh Sohrabi, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Taken for Wonder focuses on nineteenth century travelogues authored by Iranians in Europe and argues for a methodological shift from the study of travel to that of writing travel. This shift allows for a different interpretive framework that moves away from an over-emphasis on thedestinations of travel (particularly in cases where the destination, like Europe, signifies larger meanings such as modernity) and which historicizes the travelogue itself as a rhetorical text in the service of its origin's concerns and developments. Within this framework, this book demonstrates the ways in which travel writings to Europe were used to position Qajar Iran (1917-1925) within a global context, i. e. narration of travel to Europe was also narrating the power of the Qajar court even when political events were tipped against it; andrelatedly, how both travel to Europe and also translations of travel narratives into Persian should be included in our understanding of the importance of geography and mapping to the Qajars, especially during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In this process, it also re-examines the notionthat Iranian modernity was the chief outcome of Iranians travelling in and writing about Europe. | Taken for Wonder by Naghmeh Sohrabi, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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