Travel and Translation
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6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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Abstract
A Nepali Prime Minister travelled to England and France in 1850, and the members of his entourage produced a travel narrative with a reverse gaze at the British Empire. In London, he ran into a Nepali sweeper who had arrived in England before him, and a British magazine published the sweeper’s travel account in English. This presentation focuses on the travel narratives by the prince and the pauper and demonstrates how an act of travel is a practice of translation.
Bio
Pushpa Raj Acharya is a writer, translator, and scholar. He is completing a PhD in Comparative Literature and South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Contact email: gl17@soas.ac.uk
