If possible, I too shall venture out into the world – that is my desire”
Reading Rabindranath Tagore’s Chhinnapatrabali as Travel Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14955952 |
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| Authors | Sarbajaya Bhattacharya (0000-0001-6294-7804, Jadavpur University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0975-2935 • E-ISSN: 0975-2935 |
| Publisher | Aesthetics Media Services (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n3.26 |
| OpenAlex | W3043056736 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Hugo's description of a view from a moving train is one of many instances in travel writing which illustrates how the mode of travel (here, the railways) often plays a significant role in the creating of new landscapes within the text. The gaze of the traveller also plays a significant role in landscape production as does their relation to the land they are describing. This article seeks to examine the ways in which 'literary landscape(s)' produced by travel-writing are able to challenge the 'imperial eye' in the construction and representation of the colony, in this case, Bengal, with specific reference to Rabindranath Tagore's letters written to his niece Indira Devi. This article shall locate Chhinnapatrabali within the broader framework of British landscape paintings of India in order to examine how Tagore's text is formulating individual and cultural identities. It seeks to argue that the production of literary landscapes in the letters in Chhinnapatrabali must be seen within the larger colonial project of landscape production and be located within the efforts by the colonial subjects to explicitly and implicitly produce and reproduce landscapes of their own through travel narratives, where landscape becomes an interesting site/sight of Self and national identity
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · BENGAL · Colonialism · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tourism · American and British Literature Analysis · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity · Computer Science · History · Law · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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