Bonnerjee, S (2019) Cosmopolitanism, colonial shopping, and the servant problem: nurse Ida E. Cliffe’s travels in wartime India. Studies in Travel Writing, 22 (3). pp. 274-290. ISSN 1364-5145
Abstract
Ida E. Cliffe was posted in India as a nurse during the First World War. In a travel memoir published sixty years later, she captures her extensive travels across wartime colonial India. Her travel diary combines two distinct positions – that of the woman-coloniser recording her travel in the colonies, and that of the nurse in a war-zone. It focuses on the British coloniser’s home-life in India, the picturesque landscape of the country, the cosmopolitanism of its people, and its recent history. This article explores the problematic nuances in Cliffe’s celebration of colonial cosmopolitanism, her shopping for colonial artefacts and her appreciation of the picturesque embedded within the subtext of pride in British imperialism. It demonstrates not only the complexities in the figure of the female imperial traveller, but also the heteroglossia in the genre of women’s travel writing.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Studies in Travel Writing. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | First World War, India, imperialism, heteroglossia, female imperial traveller |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2020 16:02 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2020 12:41 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13645145.2019.1565722 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:166790 |