Examining the cosmopolitan gaze: Cosmopolitan in the selected travel essays from Elizabeth Reyes Islander and Alice Sun-Cua riding towards the sunrise

Date of Publication

2013

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

Subject Categories

Comparative Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Thesis Adviser

Dinah Roma Sianturi

Defense Panel Chair

Antonette T. Arogo

Defense Panel Member

Antonette T. Arogo
David Jonathan Bayot

Abstract/Summary

This thesis aims to study how travel writers Elizabeth Reyes and Alice Sun-Cua exhibit the cosmopolitan characteristics in their narratives. Thus, the concept of cosmopolitan will be used to analyze the selected essays chosen in the two writers respective collections. Writers with cosmopolitan vision, according to Debbie Lisle in her book the Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing, celebrate the interdependence and common aims of all cultures (4) and that they appreciate cultural difference and recognize the values common to all of humanity (4) unlike the writers with colonial vision. Hence, the analysis will focus on determining whether the writers indeed possess a cosmopolitan vision through analyzing how they convey their experiences in the places they have been to, the way they describe the places and/or what they see, and finally how they express their opinions and views about the foreign people, culture and territory that they are in. It can also be deduced from here then if being a cosmopolitan or portraying the cosmopolitan attitude truly veers from the colonial subjectivity.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU18252

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

125 leaves ; 28 cm.

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