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Nikos Kazantzakis’ and Kostas Ouranis’ Travel Writings within the Context of Modern Greek Travelogues [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2021
Nikos Kazantzakis is one of the most famous Greek authors of the 20th century known primarily for his novels. A significant part of Nikos Kazantzakis’s work is his travel writings.
Olga B. Bobrova
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Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda by Véronique Tadjo as the First Travelogue in the Francophone African Literatures [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2017
This essay focuses on the genre of travelogue that was new to the African Francophone literatures. The analysis of the novel In the Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda (2000) by the Ivorian writer Véronique Tadjo is a standpoint of my ...
Nina D. Lyakhovskaya
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Cracks in the Czech-Slovak mutuality in the late 19th century on example of Terézia Vansová travelogue [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura, 2017
The form of Czech-Slovak mutuality had during the 19th century monolithic character. On the example of travelogue literature in the 19th and the 20th centuries, among other things we can see the difficult historical situation in Slovakia was located then.
Jana Pátková
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Back from Shingly: revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala [PDF]

, 2018
Jewish history in Kerala is based on sources mainly from the colonial period onward and mostly in European languages, failing to account for the premodern history of Jews in Kerala. These early modern sources are based on oral traditions of Paradeśi Jews
Gamliel, Ophira
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A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE OF A VOYAGE TO EGYPT IN THE TRAVELOGUE UNDER THE AFRICAN SUN BY MILORAD RAJČEVIĆ

Истраживања, 2020
Milorad Rajčević (1890–1964), a famous Serbian traveller, adventurer, and travelogue writer, also went to Egypt in 1921 as part of his world travels. Impressions and experiences from his travels were published consecutively in Belgrade magazine Little ...
UROŠ MATIĆ
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In His Father’s Footsteps? Ahmed Münir İbrahim’s 1910 Journey from Harbin to Tokyo as a Member of the First Ottoman Student Delegation to Japan

Global Perspectives on Japan, 2019
In the historiography of Japan’s Interaction with the Turkish and the Muslim World, Ahmed Münir İbrahim (1887-1941) has been overshadowed by his father, Abdürreşid İbrahim (1857-1944).
Ulrich Brandenburg
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Functions of Ironical Mode in the Russian Travelogue

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2020
The research is performed within the linguistic stylistic approach which allows to determine the pragmatic foundation as existence of the ironic mode.
Ekaterina A. Shcheglova
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Change and creativity in early modern Indian medical thought [PDF]

, 2005
This paper begins with a frame story, the reports on Indian medicine recorded in the 17th century travelogue of the British traveller John Fryer. Fryer’s observations as an outsider are contrasted with an internal view of the works of three quite ...
Wujastyk, D.
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Visit of the Romanian Delegation to Sultan Abdulmejid (1860) and Dimitrie Bolintineanu's Narratives of the Ottoman Country

Türkiyat Mecmuası, 2022
Throughout history, human beings have felt the need to explore unknown places of the world, see distant countries, and recognize and promote new people and new places for various purposes.
Mariana Budu
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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