Poetics of Travelling Self: Discursive Formations and Purposiveness of Travel (Editors’ Note)
Deeksha Suri | Khalsa College University of Delhi | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2977-9543
Faizan Moquim | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7698-1656
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.71106/HVAI2470
Publication: Volume 5 Issue 3
Excerpt | Coleridge’s acute sense of the shifting cultural landscape or emergence of a new zeitgeist characterized heavily by the motif of travel was prophetic. The “rage, […] law and fashion” of Coleridge’s “Age” have not only reinforced and cemented themselves, but have also taken new and varied forms in contemporary times. Though the motif of travel goes back to the earliest recorded history of human civilization, “[b]y 1800, travel writing was well established as a central branch of print culture” as well (Thompson, “Nineteenth-Century” 110). The 19th century witnessed “dramatic effects on travelling” by facilitating speed and convenience in the wake of the development of railways and motor cars, which was further radicalized in 20th century with the massive development in commercial airways transportation (109). The traditional as well as modernist experimental forms of travel writing flourished during the years between the two World Wars (Thompson, Travel Writing 58). In the globalized 20th century, travel writing, which many thought would cease to exist and interest, has ironically diversified and expanded into new avatars, and the genre continues to be produced and consumed in ever increasing commercial numbers in the 21st century.
Key words | Travel Writing, Movement, Worldview, Self and other, Familiar and Estranged, Colonialism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Deeksha Suri (deeksha.suri80@gmail.com)
Faizan Moquim (faizan.moquim@vips.edu)
MLA Citation for this Article:
Suri, Deeksha and Faizan Moquim. “Poetics of Travelling Self: Discursive Formations and Purposiveness of Travel (Editors’ Note).” Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 20 May. 2023, pp. v-viii, https://doi.org/10.71106/HVAI2470.