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“The Pleasures of the Text”: Mark Twain’s Following the Equator

Pramod K. NAYAR
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83–93
Publication Date
1999-04-01
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The second volume, which relates Twain’s trip to India, achieves moreover a fine balancing act: there is in it both a colonial discourse and its simultaneously oppositional subtext.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Mark Twain’s two-volume Following the Equator 1897 is a fascinating travelogue, displaying all the characteristic touches of the author: keen powers of observation, ironic commentary, scathing wit, and a vividly evocative narrative style.
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Mark Twain’s two-volume Following the Equator 1897 is a fascinating travelogue, displaying all the characteristic touches of the author: keen powers of observation, ironic commentary, scathing wit, and a vividly evocative narrative style. The second volume, which relates Twain’s trip to India, achieves moreover a fine balancing act: there is in it both a colonial discourse and its simultaneously oppositional subtext.

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NAYAR, P. K. (1999). “The Pleasures of the Text”: Mark Twain’s Following the Equator. Journal of American Studies of Turkey, Sayı: 9, 83–93. https://ajindex.com/articles/718054

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