Projection of India: A Study of Fanny Parkes’ Travel Narrative
Keywords:
travel narrative, Fanny ParkesAbstract
Travel writing is a daunting task and it becomes all the more difficult for a female because she has to face problems twice once as a female traveller and then as a female writer. According to the patriarchal ideology of separate spheres, a female’s proper and fit place is the home; women are therefore traditionally associated with immobility and with domesticity. In the popular genres of literature; novel, drama, poetry, story etc. females have contributed fairly well. But in travel writing females are disproportionately few. In the present paper an attempt has been made to provide an overview of Fanny Parkes as a travel writer. Her projection of India is also central to this paper. Fanny Parkes’ travel account was published by Pelham Richardson, London in 1850
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