Volume I Issue IV October 2021

Name of Author : Dr. Irshad Ahmad Dar

Title of the paper : Travel Writing and Postcolonism in Amitav Ghosh’s Dance in Combodia, At Large in Burma

Abstract: Travel writing became an important tool in the hands of Europeans during colonial times. They used to visit new places around the world and jotted down their experiences in the form of travel accounts. The study of travel writing also plays an important role in understanding the relationship between the ‘East’ and the ‘West’. Postcolonial is the study of the cultural inheritance of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the power and exploitation of colonized people and their native lands. Moreover, Postcolonialism is an academic discipline that portrays the methods of intellectual discourse explaining, analyzing, and responding to the cultural legacies of colonialism. The term postcolonial is rarely used to imply that this era is cleanly over the continuing relations of economic dominance and dependency in the contemporary world not only frequently echo the colonial global divisions of power, but can often be traced back to historical routes in exactly this formation. European colonialism is usually seen to have its genesis in the exploration and exploitation that followed the ‘discovery’ of the American and Caribbean New World.

Keywords : Europeans, exploitation, Imperialism, Postcolonialism, Travel

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Page No. : 94-95