"A poor Haji in search of the Picturesque" or an imperial scribe : Fanny Parks' Wanderings of a Pilgrim.
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 Orient...
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| author | Ghaderi, Farah Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam Sivagurunathan, Shivani |
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| description | 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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| spelling | upm-243862015-11-26T08:06:10Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24386/ "A poor Haji in search of the Picturesque" or an imperial scribe : Fanny Parks' Wanderings of a Pilgrim. Ghaderi, Farah Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam Sivagurunathan, Shivani 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. Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24386/1/A%20poor%20Haji%20in%20search%20of%20the%20Picturesque.pdf 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 http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/sll 10.3968/j.sll.1923156320120401.1678 English |
| spellingShingle | Ghaderi, Farah Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam Sivagurunathan, Shivani "A poor Haji in search of the Picturesque" or an imperial scribe : Fanny Parks' Wanderings of a Pilgrim. |
| title | "A poor Haji in search of the Picturesque" or an imperial scribe : Fanny Parks' Wanderings of a Pilgrim. |
| title_full | "A poor Haji in search of the Picturesque" or an imperial scribe : Fanny Parks' Wanderings of a Pilgrim. |
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| title_full_unstemmed | "A poor Haji in search of the Picturesque" or an imperial scribe : Fanny Parks' Wanderings of a Pilgrim. |
| title_short | "A poor Haji in search of the Picturesque" or an imperial scribe : Fanny Parks' Wanderings of a Pilgrim. |
| title_sort | "a poor haji in search of the picturesque" or an imperial scribe : fanny parks' wanderings of a pilgrim. |
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