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Volume II Special Issue I January 2022
Name of Author :
Nirmal Joseph
Title of the paper :
The Fictionalization of India in Select Western Travel Writings: A Postcolonial Study
Abstract:
It is a tough task to designate travel writing as fiction or non-fiction. The protean nature of the genre makes it extremely difficult to categorize. As Carl Thompson has opined in his book Travel Writing, All examples of travel writing are by definition textual artefacts that have been constructed by their writers and publishers 27. The amount of fictionality in travelogues is of varying degrees. There are travel writers who deliberately distort the experiences of their travel, often indulging in wilful propagation of exotic and fantastical ideas about their destinations. The process of othering in travelogues of the postcolonial era is far more subtle than the outright sense of superiority and domination showed by many of their forerunners. Sadly the numerable Western travelogues about India had only helped in reasserting the image of India as a mystery land. This paper is a critique of select travelogues that constructed Imaginative Geographies out of India.
Keywords :
Western Travelogues on India, Fictionalization, Othering, Constructed Narratives, Imaginative Geographies
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Page Number :
53-57