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Volume 18:6 June 2018
ISSN 1930-2940

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Travel Literature Transgresses Cultures and Boundaries:
Reading Samanth Subramanian’s Nonfiction Following Fish

Dr. Gurpreet Kaur, Ph.D., M. Phil., M.A., B.Ed.


Courtesy: https://www.amazon.in/Following-Fish-Samanth-Subramanian/dp/0143064479

Abstract

Travel literature intends to put to record usually the personal experiences of an author touring a place for the pleasure of travel or intentionally for the purpose of research transgressing the cultural, social, racial, ethnic, religious and gender based boundaries that exist among humanity. Travel writing is another genre that has, as its focus, accounts of real or imaginary places. The genre encompasses a number of styles that may range from the documentary to the evocative, from literary to journalistic, and from the humorous to the serious. It is a form whose contours are shaped by places and their histories. Critical reflection on travel literature, however, is a relatively new phenomenon. Moreover in this context, India remains a land of deserts, mountains and plains in most imaginations. Only a few of the stories about India explore its vast rivers actually mention its coasts. This paper aims at exploring an Indian journalist turned writer, Samanth Subramanian’s nonfiction, Following Fish: Travels Around The Indian Coast (2010). In this attempt, he observes the cosmopolitanism and diverse influences absorbed by India's coastal cities, the withdrawing of traditional fishermen from their craft, the corresponding growth of fishing as pure and voluminous commerce, and the degradation of waters and beaches from over-fishing.

Keywords: Samanth Subramanian, Following Fish: Travels Around The Indian Coast, travel, literature, histories, India, nonfiction.

Travelogues

Travelogues have been popular in the history of world literature. Travel literature typically records the experiences of an author touring a place for the pleasure of travel. An individual work is sometimes called a travelogue or itinerary. Travel literature may be cross-cultural or transnational in focus, or may involve travel to different regions within the same country. And of course accounts of spaceflight may also be considered travel literature. Literary travelogues generally exhibit a coherent narrative or aesthetic beyond the logging of dates and events. Travel literature has many sub divisions in which can be included Travelogues, Fictional Travelogues, Travel writing, Travel Journals and Guide books. “A travel writer should have an unnatural cleverness in representing unusual incidents in a humorous manner. They should be literary writers than being mere travelers,” observes a writer referring to the context of travel writing in India (Ummarkutty 28).

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Dr. Gurpreet Kaur, Ph.D., M. Phil., M.A., B.Ed.
Assistant Prof in English
PG Department of English
SGTB Khalsa College,
Anandpur Sahib 140118
Punjab
India
gurpreet0697@gmail.com

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