Abstract The European travel narratives that follow the discovery of New World have already been extensively studied, from historical, anthropological and literary perspectives. However, we would like to reread them perspective tension between a “marvellous possession” (Greenblatt 1991) more profound failure. early travelogues show complex discursive architecture with textual subject facing an ...

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In 2012, the Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto travelled to North Korea and result of this trip was travel account Dentro do Segredo [Inside Secret]. his travelogue, highlights use photography for verification legitimization a journey. Few photographs produced in have room improvisation author is aware fact. He knows that ahead photographic lens there always another – an austere political reg...

This study aims to offer a critical analysis of V. S. Naipaul’s second Islamic travelogue Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (1998), which chronicles the author’s excursions to the 4 non-Arab Muslim countries of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. This critique is presented, firstly, through problematizing the author’s theorization on the theme of Muslim conversi...

‘[T]he entity called Europe was constructed from the outside in as much as from the inside out.’ So wrote Mary Louise Pratt, at the start of Imperial Eyes (1992: 6), her insightful account of colonial travelogue. Pratt’s point provides a pithy summary of one of the central claims of what was, at the time, the still emerging field of postcolonial studies (in which context, of course, Imperial Ey...

John Paget’s travelogue from 1839, Hungary and Transylvania; with Remarks on their Condition, Social, Political, Economical, makes a clear distinction between the Kingdom of Principality Transylvania, both under Austrian rule at time, rest Eastern Europe. In terms variety depth descriptions social, political, economic conditions in East-CentralEuropean country province, comprehensive objective ...

In 1827, an Indian juggler named Mooty Madua Samme converted to Christianity in Stockholm, Sweden. This historical event got much attention the press at time – as did his succeeding marriage a Swedish woman Erica and was celebrated victory for Evangelical Lutheran faith. Later, 1840s, narrative depicting spread via travelogue by Xavier Marmier, which translated mediated through press, reacted S...