Abstract

Eternally on a Journey: Nabaneeta Dev Sens On a Truck Alone, to McMahon

Antara Datta

Volume: 15 Issue: 2 2025

Abstract:

This paper explores the complex and uncertain position that womens travel narratives occupy within the conventions of travel writing. As writers of journeyworks, women have to insistently engage in discursive struggles alongside the struggle of occupying and traversing spaces not readily hospitable to their presence. The study focuses on Nabaneeta Dev Sens travelogue On a Truck Alone, to McMahon and analyses how her writing constantly challenges and reworks representational and spatial constrictions that frame womens mobility and freedom.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v15i02.001

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