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Ghaderi, Farah and Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam and Sivagurunathan, Shivani
(2012)
"A poor Haji in search of the Picturesque" or an imperial scribe : Fanny Parks' Wanderings of a Pilgrim.
Studies in Literature and Language, 4 (1).
pp. 42-47.
ISSN 1923-1555; ESSN: 1923-1563
Abstract
Through a close reading of Fanny Parks’ Wanderings of a Pilgrim, this paper seeks to expose the imperialist underpinnings of her travel journal, purportedly presenting an objective picture of India. To achieve this end, the main focus will be on an exploration of the rhetorical strategies and Orientalist tropes deployed by the author to script the Indian milieu in need of British benign tutelage. Unearthing the colonial ideology and Othering strategies informing this travel narrative not only casts doubt on the author’s claim of experiential authority stemming from eye-witness accounts, but unravels the text’s subtle endorsement of the British colonial presence and intervention in India.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Modern Language and Communication |
| DOI Number: | https://doi.org/10.3968/j.sll.1923156320120401.1678 |
| Publisher: | Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture |
| Keywords: | Orientalist tropes; Representation; Othering; Travel writing; Fanny Parks; Zenana. |
| Depositing User: | Nur Farahin Ramli |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2014 04:14 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2015 08:06 |
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| URI: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24386 |
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