A Book Talk with Daniel Majchrowicz: “The World in Words: Travel Writing in Muslim South Asia”

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Dr. Daniel Majchrowicz will speak about his book, “The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia” (Cambridge University Press, 2023), a study of South Asia’s global imagination as it was expressed in Urdu-language travel writing from 1840 to the present. The book argues that travel writing in South Asia was a broadly ecumenical genre that let Indian travelers not just describe the world as they found it, but to imagine it as they wished for it to be. Opening this vast South Asian travel atlas, The World in Words introduces a new literary genre, unlocks new forms of literary subjectivity from long-ignored voices, and reveals new modes of circulation, mobility, and connection between India, Asia, and Africa.

Dr. Majchrowicz was a Florence Tan Moeson Fellow in 2012 and worked closely with the collections at the Library of Congress, particularly in the Asian Reading Room. His work with South Asian Collection materials and others throughout the Library contributed to the research leading to his book.

Dr. Daniel Majchrowicz is an Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture at Northwestern University. His work is committed to thinking about South Asia and its place in the world as it is envisaged, imagined, and expressed through the medium of language and literature.

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