Wandering borders: the Orient in english travel writing
Resumo
This paper offers a necessarily succint overview of the way the Orient
has been depicted in English Travel Writing, from the medieval narrative of John
Mandeville to the Romantic joumey of Alexander Kinglake. The last section of
the article considers V.S.NaipauPs An Area of Darkness as an example of some of
the recurrent tropes in orientalist discourse that persist today, but also as a
paradigm of the deterritorialized, decentred condition of the postcolonial subject.
Wandering borders: the Orient in english travel writing
Resumo
This paper offers a necessarily succint overview of the way the Orient
has been depicted in English Travel Writing, from the medieval narrative of John
Mandeville to the Romantic joumey of Alexander Kinglake. The last section of
the article considers V.S.NaipauPs An Area of Darkness as an example of some of
the recurrent tropes in orientalist discourse that persist today, but also as a
paradigm of the deterritorialized, decentred condition of the postcolonial subject.
