DOI: 10.5176/2251-2853_2.1.76
Authors: Amrita Satapathy
Abstract:
Early French travellers painted very interesting pictures when they travelled to far off regions in the South-East Asia and articulated the idea of the exotic east through their travelogues for a curious western audience. The paper seeks to study the changes in perceptions in early travel writings of the east and the west and explores how the east was perceived by the west and how these ideas changed with the advent of Colonialism and Occidentalism.
Keywords: Travel writing, Orientalism, Occidentalism, East, West, Colonialism, England, India
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