Abstract

MARQUES, Sandra C. S.. Topographical replicas in travel narratives about India. Etnográfica [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.3, pp.419-442. ISSN 0873-6561.

In this article, I intend to examine the ways in which travel accounts about India perform, the meanings they carry and translate, and their impact at the level of perceptions and discursive practices in the international tourism encounter in Kolkata (the capital of the state of West Bengal, India). The scrutiny of the style of narratives used by the Western tourists, approached in this city during 2004-2007, revealed a characteristic, transversal to most of the accounts, which is the attempt towards the reproduction of stylistic techniques of the travel literature genre by using replicas of style, terms, manifested contents and meanings, in a cumulative way.

Keywords : travel accounts; India; Kolkata (Calcutta); Orient; third world; tourism.

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