ISSUE V; July, 2014
Gender and Travel: Questioning Categories
Travel especially as a category yields easily or so it seems to the dominant. Our endeavor in this issue of eDhvani is to problematize the idea of travel and analyse it from positions that not only question the leisurely and gendered notions of travel but also reconceptualise the notion of travel in ways that open up the field of enquiry. Beginning with questions of "who travels? To where? How and why? ", eDhvani intends to explore the idea of travel and gender as movement. Gender is now largely understood as performance which is constantly shifting. On similar grounds, can there be a connection made between gender and travel as movement? Can we look at gender itself as travel, as movement?
Travel writing as a genre has defined its boundaries largely within the concept of travelling for pleasure. How do we understand day-to-day experiences of travelling/commuting for work, travelling forced by displacement or even travelling/walking for basic necessities? The existing discourse of travel studies has to be re/read in this light. For example, the colonial travel writings have already been reread as documents that produced and established knowledge on the Orient for colonization. The extension of the boundaries of the genre in this manner would further complicate the study by looking at travel as movement from one space to another not necessitated by one's pleasure or pleasure to 'see/know', but necessitated by compulsion through which people negotiate. Thus, a displaced body as an engendered displacement, constructing gender spatially through body and performance, may link both travel and gender.
eDhvani, in its fifth volume, calls for scholarly papers that discuss and analyze various aspects of gender and travel.
The papers would be peer reviewed and published in the coming issue of eDhvani.
Papers can address but not limit to the following sub-themes:
- Alternate travel narratives that would help redefine the boundaries of the genre
- Travel narratives as a genre in the various language-literary traditions of India – nature, scope and limitations
- Critical reading of travelogues in languages of India with special reference to gender discourses – deconstructing binaries of femininity and masculinity
- Narratives that reconstruct notions of travel and connect it to questions of identity – who travels and to where
- Travel/Movement as enabling, empowering – following the Ambedkarite notion of movement from the orthodox village to the modern space of the city
- Oral narratives of communities which are always on the move.
- Texts that question the pleasure/leisure/gendered nature of travel/movement
- Exploring questions like religion-spirituality, health-medicine-body-performance, nation building, colonial/post-colonial, domestic/foreign space, work-leisure-displacement etcetera in travel narratives to extend gender debates
- Reading travelogues, promotional videos, travel blogs, travel brochures, itineraries, travel support sites, travel guides, etc.
eDhvani also calls for
- Interviews with eminent thinkers/writers on their views on travel and gender
- Translations of poetry/short writing/short travelogues related to the concept note
- Creative writings in the above mentioned areas
Last Date of Submission: 20 May, 2014
Intimation Regarding Acceptance/Rejection & Revision: 15 June, 2014
Final Submission after Editing: 30 June, 2014
Date of Publishing: First Week of July, 2014
Send complete papers/writings/translations to edhvani@uohyd.ac.in by 20th May 2014. The papers should follow the format mentioned in http://edhvani.in/ and please check the website for further details on submission.
See Submission Guidelines for more details…
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