“With a Home Nowhere, I Belong Everywhere”: Travel as a Heterotopic Space of Feminist Resistance in Shivya Nath’s The Shooting Star (2018)

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2023-0035

Amrita Talukdar, Priyanka Tripathi

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Abstract

Abstract In India, male dominance historically prevailed in the realms of travel and travel writing due to their alignment with ideals of masculine courage and sexuality. However, in the post-millennial era, Indian women began to emerge as solo travelers in the tourism industry, facilitated by increased access to higher education and diverse professions. By analyzing the travel memoir of Shivya Nath, a prominent Indian female travel blogger, titled The Shooting Star (2018), this article explores the concept of solo travel as a heterotopic space—a realm of resistance and negotiation that empowers women and offers an alternative form of liberation. Nath’s memoir celebrates female emancipation, defying narratives of victimhood. The argument presented is that solo travel represents an active form of resistance against gender stereotypes, enabling women to overcome personal fears and logistical obstacles.

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"无处不是家，无处不是我的归属"：旅行作为希芙娅-纳特《流星》（2018）中女性主义反抗的异托邦空间

摘要在印度，由于与男性的勇气和性理想相一致，男性在旅游和旅游写作领域历来占主导地位。然而，在千禧年后的时代，由于接受高等教育和从事多种职业的机会增多，印度女性开始成为旅游业的独行者。本文通过分析印度著名女性旅游博主希芙娅-纳特（Shivya Nath）的旅游回忆录《流星》（The Shooting Star，2018 年），探讨了单人旅行作为异托邦空间的概念--一个赋予女性权力并提供另一种解放形式的反抗和协商领域。纳特的回忆录歌颂了女性的解放，蔑视了受害者的叙事。她提出的论点是，单人旅行是对性别陈规定型观念的一种积极抵抗形式，使妇女能够克服个人恐惧和后勤障碍。

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Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

CiteScore

0.30

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157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.