Description: Through engaging characters--China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, a French teacher in America, Arab students in Moscow, a Japanese woman writer in Europe--Illusion and Disillusionment examines travel writing beyond colonialism, imperialism, and Orientalism, focusing on the experience of travel itself.
Brief description: Roberta Micallef is Associate Professor of the Practice in Middle Eastern Literatures in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University.