JOURNAL ARTICLE
Queen Victoria through Punjabi Eyes: The Travel Writings of Hardevi.
Published In: Victorian Literature & Culture, 2024, v. 52, n. 1. P. 40 1 of 3
Database: Historical Abstracts with Full Text 2 of 3
Authored By: Minocha, Arti 3 of 3
Abstract
This essay examines two travel narratives written by Hardevi, a woman from Lahore who traveled to London for Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887. The accounts contain Hardevi's narration of her journey by ship and describe the celebrations. Hardevi showcases the queen's marital home and her conjugal life, seamlessly accommodating them within reformist constructions of a modern, educated, pativrata (conjugally virtuous) Indian woman. Hardevi's encounter with the queen at the heart of the empire opens up a conceptual space of possibilities for a modern, gendered self. This article examines her deployment of a mode of subjectivity that allows her to be, simultaneously, an obedient and fascinated colonial subject of the imperial spectacle and also a citizen-subject who claims the agency of critique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Additional Information
- Source:Victorian Literature & Culture. 2024/03, Vol. 52, Issue 1, p40
- Document Type:Article
- Subject Area:History
- Publication Date:2024
- ISSN:1060-1503
- DOI:10.1017/S1060150323000761
- Accession Number:176615956
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