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

Authors : Pramod K NAYAR

Pages : 83-93

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Publication Date : 1999-04-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :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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