Not all the travellers who had trodden the orient during the heightened era of imperialism comply with the defining precepts of what Edward Said has labelled Orientalism. The worldviews of some travel writers were not unilaterally levelled by the juggernaut of imperialism. From within the hustle and bustle of colonial rhetoric, some voices retain a poignant independence that interrogates the unicity, generalization, stability, and homogeneity with which Said has sealed up his seminal thesis Orientalism. Following a multidisciplinary cultural studies approach, the present thesis interprets...
Not all the travellers who had trodden the orient during the heightened era of imperialism comply with the defining precepts of what Edward Said has l...