Historical poetics: revisiting gender in Isabella Bird's polychronotopic account of Malaya

• Main Authors: Barani, Forough, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27942/1/Historical%20Poetics%20Revisiting%20Gender%20in%20Isabella%20Bird.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27942/; http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2021%20%282%29%20Jun.%202013/10%20Page%20535-546.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

This paper investigates the representation of time and space in Isabella Bird's The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (1883), her travel narrative on Malaya, through a Bakhtinian discussion of the chronotope. The study examines the historical poetics of the text and compares the intra-textu...