Vikram Seth’s From Heaven Lake as a Counter-Orientalist Travel Narrative
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چکیده
This study reads Vikram Seth’s From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983) as a counter-orientalist travel narrative that destabilizes the conventions of Western writing genre. Conventional writing, postcolonial scholars such Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha others claim, functioned mostly colonial or orientalist discourse by being involved in producing knowledge about Orient for domination control. It created binary between West treated latter negative derogatory terms. The residues discourse, critics Debbie Lisle, Mary Louise Pratt argue, persist well. paper examines travelogue claims counters primarily two ways. One, it renders differences upon peoples their cultures positive terms, another, avoids conventional home-away-home trajectory journey. For analytic purpose, engages both available critical responses theoretical insights from theories Carl Thompson, Tim Youngs, Said so on. Finally, expects to open up new approach post-empire narratives, especially written non-Western writers.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Scholars
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2773-7829', '2773-7837']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3126/sjah.v5i1.52476