UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN : LETTER I Tinjauan Women Travellers and Travel Writing

Abstract

This research aims to show the influences of the power of discourse: genre, gender, and colonialism in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Lucy Bird. Some travel writing’s paradigms were used as theoretical background in this research, such Sara Mills and Carl Thompson. As an object of the research, the novel became the source of primary data. Another historical and cultural literary and also literary review of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan as secondary data. The result of the research examined that contestation of discourses implied the way of the author to preserve his stories.

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“…Huggan argues that travel writing at the end of the 20th century is often presented in various forms including adventure stories, political commentaries, and spiritual journeys that are facilitated by borrowing scientific instruments such as history, anthropology, etc. (Jaya, 2018;Huggan, 2008;Thompson, 2011).…”

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“…For example, when he explains the local situation after a disaster which in fact has become commonplace if a disaster occurs then things will get chaotic. In his research, Jaya (2018) refers to this as a comparison technique, meaning the author gives an overview of something to create a foreign impression by detailing what he saw. The depiction of the comparative technique in describing the world objectively can be seen in the following quote.…”