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Rhetoric of Empire in Kincaid’sAmong Flowersand Macdonald’sHoly Cow
(Central Department of English Tribhuvan University, 2024-07) Asmita Parajuli; Dr.Komal Phuyal ; Supervisor
Abstract This thesis aims to analyse the perspective of two Western writers through their travelogue on Eastern countries, namely Among Flowers by Kincaid and Holy Cow by Macdonald, to evaluate whether the Orientalist perspective and Western hegemony have continued to exist even in contemporary times. The study utilizes the concepts of postcolonial theory, orientalism, and the theory of Self and Others. The study has reviewed the existing literature concerning the aforementioned travelogues based on the concepts of Orientalism and Others, postcolonial critique of these works, and analyses that have already been undertaken. Furthermore, the study concludes that the authors are essentially neo-orientalists which has given rise to this imperial perspective toward the Third World countries. The thesis has discussed the literature based on theory as well as analysis of the wordings of the two travelogues to conclude that essentially the hypothesis was true and indeed the two authors have embraced and posited the Imperialistic perspectives highly, thus reducing Nepal and India to a subjective representation of their own personalities, failing to capture the true image of their cultures.