Abstract
Travel Narrative as a genre is a factual representation or rather re-creation of personal and individual anecdotes of travel experiences, that is to say the literary representation of a real travel with all its enthralling experiences. It can also be an introspection of the journey which had been completed by the author and also an objective documentation of his travel experiences. Amitav Ghosh is also one such writer. He frequently uses history in his novels and essays inculcated in travel narrative. He is passionately involved with history crossing of national and international frontiers area old theme, to which Ghosh gives a new dimension. His works, The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace and travelogues –Countdown and Dancing in Cambodia At Large in Burma brought him International fame and recognition. The aim of this paper is to analyze how Amitav Ghosh has reconstructed history of time and history of Cambodia and Myanmar. The narration of Ghosh’s travel experiences in these countries brings to the fore the complex temporal dimensions of history in Dancing in Cambodia and At Large in Burma.
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