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Bengali Travel Writers of the Mid-20th Century in Search of an Asian Identity

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dc.abstract.enThis article looks into two Bengali travelogues, Syed Mujtaba Ali’s Deśe Bideśe and Jāpāne by Annada Shankar Ray, to examine the identity transformation of travellers who undertook journeys from India to other Asian countries in the mid-20th century. Both writers, a Bengali Muslim in Afghanistan and a Bengali Hindu in Japan, find themselves in spaces alien to them, but as they keep discovering common history, culture and values of Asian societies they develop a strong sense of belonging. Encounters with people and historical artefacts inspire them to reflect on their own cultural identity. The article argues that the selected narratives can be read in the light of Pan-Asianism, a discourse that gained popularity in India in the first half of the century, and that Pan-Asianism itself can be considered an intellectual outcome of the liminal experience of societies undergoing rapid transformation during the fall of colonialism.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorRokicka, Weronika
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-28T20:03:33Z
dc.date.available2024-01-28T20:03:33Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/151015
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://zenodo.org/record/6860757#.ZBV27HbMK3A
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationliterary studies
dc.publisher.ministerialUniversità degli Studi di Milano
dc.relation.bookLiminal Spaces, and Identity Transformations in South Asian Literatures and Arts
dc.relation.pages305-318
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.subject.enIndian travel literature, Bengali travel literature, Pan-Asianism, liminality, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Annada Shankar Ray.
dc.titleBengali Travel Writers of the Mid-20th Century in Search of an Asian Identity
dc.typeMonographChapter
dspace.entity.typePublication