Politics, Aesthetics and Quest in British Travel Writing on the Middle East

2012 ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Nash
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Travel Writing

scholarly journals Polish Tartar Travel Writing in the Interwar Period: Themes, Motifs, Narrative Strategies

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 681-695
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Czerwiński
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Islamic Countries

Summary The article analyzes Polish Tartar travel writing in the interwar period, i.e. Mustafa Aleksandrowicz’s, Leon Kryczyński’s, Edige Szynkiewicz’s and Ali Ismail Woronowicz’s (all of them Polish Muslims) accounts of their journeys to North Africa (Morocco, Egypt) and the Middle East (Persia). The analysis shows that the themes and narrative strategies of their work differ in many ways from those of mainstream contemporary Polish literature and journalism. Most importantly, the Tartar authors saw the Islamic countries through Muslim eyes. This perspective also determined their interests (the themes) and their point of view (they combined the roles of the observer and the participant).

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