Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

Davis, Robert Murray; Fussell, Paul

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“…Along with the progress of civilization, they also brought seediness in the societies of the peaceful native blacks. Fussell (1980) also criticizes them for their seedy behaviors: "self-conscious primping sexuality, rapacity, aggression, bad faith" (p. 65). One of the motives of Greene to go to Liberia is to observe this seediness brought about by civilization and colonization which Greene vehemently criticizes.…”

Section: Searching For the Uncorrupted Past In The Interior Of Liberiamentioning

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Greene’s Quest for Seediness in Journey Without Maps

Upadhyay

2023

Dhaulagiri J. Contemp. Iss.

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This paper examines Graham Greene’s travel text, Journey Without Maps (1936/2010), so as to discover why Greene makes a quest for seediness, especially a primitive one. The study is drawn by Greene’s paradoxical fascination to the seediness, which literally suggests the squalor or ugliness. But why does he like it? This is the major concern of the study. Using the concept, primitivism, that was frequently used by the Western travel writers to depict the non-Western peoples and their societies during the colonial era, the study analyzes and interprets the text, and claims that Greene’s journey to the interior of Liberia is the journey of his escape from the contemporary seediness of civilization that he experiences in Britain into the seediness of primitivism that he supposes to find in Liberia where the civilization has comparatively a weaker grip upon human being. After the textual analysis, the study expects to add a new perspective to the critical reading of the Western texts written about the non-Western societies representing them as the primitive and uncivilized others.

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Section: Searching For the Uncorrupted Past In The Interior Of Liberiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Greene’s Quest for Seediness in Journey Without Maps

Upadhyay

2023

Dhaulagiri J. Contemp. Iss.

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“…It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates, retaining all he can of the excitement of the unpredictable attaching to exploration, and fusing that with the pleasure of "knowing where one is" belonging to tourism. 31 These categories are easier to understand as discursive constructs than as realities. As an example Fussell presents a mid-nineteenth century traveller who lamented the obliteration of "every trace and trait of the individual" of the "droves" of tourists he sees when visiting Italy.…”

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“My luggage and my ladies were unloaded”

Sintobin¹

2018

Gender, Companionship, and Travel

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Travelling by car, as a gentleman accompanied by three ladies, all through France without a driver, it is no small thing." 1 This is how the I-narrator of De vroolijke tocht (The Happy Trip, 1911) by the Flemish author Cyriel Buysse evaluates his trip to France. The travelogue is clearly autobiographical. Buysse had indeed toured France the year before, for three weeks, with one of the two cars he owned, a four-cylinder from the Belgian brand Minerva Motors. He was accompanied by three female passengers, which Buysse's biographer identifies as "the Tromp-girls." 2 They were the three daughters of Nelly Tromp-Dyserinck, the widow he had married in 1896. Their names were Inez, Mary, and Thea, and they were 24, 20, and 19 years old respectively. According to Van Parys it was highly unlikely that Nelly took part in this road trip, because she insisted on comfort and suffered from poor health. Interestingly, the I-narrator never specifies his relationship with the women: The reader is left to wonder how a man could travel with three young women in those days without risking public outcry. The narrator never mentions their age, nor their names. He systematically calls them "my ladies" instead, occasionally "the ladies," so they are usually represented as a collective, acting and reacting as if they are one. The limited number of times that they are not treated collectively, they are either anonymous or receive numbers: "[O]ne of my ladies," "my second lady," "my third lady," "the second of our ladies." 3 The second lady has a kind of epitheton ornans: She is the one "who tends to be distracted sometimes," but that is the only characteristic the reader gets from any of the women. 4 The "I" sometimes speaks as a collective "we": "We hobble and jump through a city: Dendermonde," "then we saw the man come back," "the road on which we drive," "We are on the road from Bouillon to Sedan," "Now that we are approaching the German border," "Thus we were struggling in Nancy, to find the way to Dijon," "Thus we drove the entire day, along the river between the mountains," "we reached the far end of our trip and finally go back," "suddenly we see something coming". . . 5 These quotes demonstrate that the "we" is mainly, although not exclusively, used for "factual" information: To indicate where the company is located at a certain moment, or to superficially describe the surroundings. However, when evaluating or reflecting upon what they (have) encounter(ed), the narrator tends to switch to the first person. A few

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“…Subtly literary works produce certain imagination and knowledge to the reader (Cocking, 2009;Hentsch, 1992). Words in travel literature actively construct certain images about the places and characters of the people visited (Fussell, 1982;Pratt, 2007;Thompson, 2011). The narrative technique commonly used is using the first person pronoun so that the author's personal experiences can be conveyed freely.…”

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Representation of middle eastern countries in Geni Jora's novel: An analysis of travel literature according to Carl Thompson theory

Ilma

Manshur

Sudibyo

2023

suluk

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This study aims to explain the representation of society and culture in Middle Eastern countries, including Morocco, Syria, and Jordan in the novel Geni Jora. The theory used is the theory of travel literature with the concept of representation of others according to Carl Thompson. Travel literature is a report about the world that is written based on the author's subjectivity and has a role in shaping the reader's knowledge. The results of the analysis show that the novel Geni Jora uses exploratory journey narratives and presents critical and courageous subjects. Morocco is described as a tolerant Islamic country because it succeeded in combining European modernity with past Islamic religiosity and Jewish culture. While Syria is described as a modern country, it is less religious and too Westernized. Likewise, Jordan is described as an Islamic country, but too westernized and inconsistent with Islamic ethics. The novel represents a contemporary travel literary genre that presents alternative and realistic narratives about the condition of the Middle East as a complex and diverse region. The novel also represents the contemporary travel genre which has not succeeded in narrating cosmopolitanism by still presenting competitive narratives and travel subjects that are superior when interacting with the characters encountered.

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Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

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Greene’s Quest for Seediness in Journey Without Maps

Greene’s Quest for Seediness in Journey Without Maps

“My luggage and my ladies were unloaded”

Representation of middle eastern countries in Geni Jora's novel: An analysis of travel literature according to Carl Thompson theory

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