Travel Writing: Identity Transformation in Anita Desai`s Narratives

Abstract

This paper aims at examining travel as a popular theme in the contemporary literary both fictional and non fictional works. Technological advancement has made human mobility accessible and cheaper. As a result, travel writing has been one of the most significant discourses in the world literature. The objective of the study is to initiate travel as the rhetorical discourse or search into the self and the Other. Based on the qualitative research as a method of analysis, an Indian female writer in English, Anita Desai and her  selected works have been determined as the area of the study.The analysis of travel undertaken by characters presented in her works aptly justify that travel is search more than a destination.

Key words: travel, travel writing, discourse, search, transformation