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标题：“A Poor Haji in Search of the Picturesque”or an Imperial Scribe: Fanny Parks’ Wanderings of a Pilgrim
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作者：Farah Ghaderi ; Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya ; Shivani Sivagurunathan 等
期刊名称：Studies in Literature and Language
印刷版ISSN：1923-1555
电子版ISSN：1923-1563
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：42-47
DOI：10.3968/j.sll.1923156320120401.1678
语种：English
出版社：Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
摘要：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.Key words: Orientalist Tropes; Representation; Othering; Travel Writing; Fanny Parks; Zenana
关键词：Orientalist Tropes; Representation; Othering; Travel Writing; Fanny Parks; Zenana