Doonstruck Diaries of Victorian Memsahibs: Between the Journal and Jhampaun in Mussoorie and Landour

Chatterjee, Arup K.

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dc.creator	Chatterjee, Arup K.
dc.date	2021-10-27
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-25T19:49:31Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-25T19:49:31Z
dc.identifier	http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/33277
dc.identifier	10.1344/Lectora2021.27.9
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/132639
dc.description	Established as colonial hill stations in Indian's Doon Valley, in the 1820s, Mussoorie and Landour emerged in Victorian literary imagination with the journals of Emily Eden, Fanny Parks, and the Wallace-Dunlop sisters. This paper argues that the Doon's female imperial architextures invented new prospects of grafting Anglo-Saxon aesthetics on the Himalayan terra nullius, diminishing, miniaturizing, and depopulating aspects of the hazardous, the alien, and the local. A thread of archetypes —jhampauns (Himalayan loco-armchairs) and Himalayan vistas— link the aesthetic arcs in the journals of Eden, Parks, and the Wallace-Dunlops. Although the architexture was ostensibly apolitical, it imbued the Doon's representational spaces with a reproducible English character, rendering its terra incognita into terra familiaris in imperial psyche, while carving a distinct imperial subjectivity for Memsahibs.	ca-ES
dc.description	Established as colonial hill stations in Indian's Doon Valley, in the 1820s, Mussoorie and Landour emerged in Victorian literary imagination with the journals of Emily Eden, Fanny Parks, and the Wallace-Dunlop sisters. This paper argues that the Doon's female imperial architextures invented new prospects of grafting Anglo-Saxon aesthetics on the Himalayan terra nullius, diminishing, miniaturizing, and depopulating aspects of the hazardous, the alien, and the local. A thread of archetypes —jhampauns (Himalayan loco-armchairs) and Himalayan vistas— link the aesthetic arcs in the journals of Eden, Parks, and the Wallace-Dunlops. Although the architexture was ostensibly apolitical, it imbued the Doon's representational spaces with a reproducible English character, rendering its terra incognita into terra familiaris in imperial psyche, while carving a distinct imperial subjectivity for Memsahibs.	en-US
dc.description	Establecidas como puestos de montaña coloniales en el valle de Doon de la India, las ciudades de Mussoorie y Landour poblaron el imaginario literario victoriano, en la década de 1820, a través de los diarios de Emily Eden, Fanny Parks y las hermanas Wallace-Dunlop. Este artículo defiende que las arqui-texturas imperiales femeninas en el Doon inventaron nuevas posibilidades para la inserción de la estética anglosajona en la terra nullius del Himalaya, reduciendo, miniaturizando y desechando aspectos de lo azaroso, lo alieno y lo local. Una serie de arquetipos —los jhampauns (palanquines del Himalaya) y las panorámicas de las montañas— unen la estética de los diarios de Eden, Parks y las hermanas Wallace-Dunlop. Si bien la arqui-textura era aparentemente apolítica, esta infundió y reprodujo un carácter inglés en los espacios de representación del Doon, convirtiendo así una terra incognita en la terra familiaris de la mentalidad imperial, mientras que, al mismo tiempo, forjaba una subjetividad imperial exclusiva para las Memsahibs.	es-ES
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	ADHUC–Centre de Recerca Teoria, Gènere, Sexualitat	ca-ES
dc.relation	http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/33277/35640
dc.rights	Drets d'autor (c) 2021 Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat	ca-ES
dc.source	Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat; No 27 (2021): Mujeres centroamericanas: autorías y escrituras dispersas en lo global (1890-1980); 191-210	ca-ES
dc.source	Lectora: Journal of Women and Textuality; No. 27 (2021): Mujeres centroamericanas: autorías y escrituras dispersas en lo global (1890-1980); 191-210	en-US
dc.source	Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat; Núm. 27 (2021): Dones centreamericanes: autories i escriptures disperses a la globalitat (1890-1980); 191-210	es-ES
dc.source	2013-9470
dc.source	1136-5781
dc.subject	jhampaun	ca-ES
dc.subject	Emily Eden	ca-ES
dc.subject	Fanny Parks	ca-ES
dc.subject	Mussoorie	ca-ES
dc.subject	Himalayas	ca-ES
dc.subject	archetype	ca-ES
dc.subject	Wallace-Dunlop sisters	ca-ES
dc.subject	jhampaun	en-US
dc.subject	Emily Eden	en-US
dc.subject	Fanny Parks	en-US
dc.subject	Mussoorie	en-US
dc.subject	Himalayas	en-US
dc.subject	archetype	en-US
dc.subject	Wallace-Dunlop sisters	en-US
dc.subject	jhampaun	es-ES
dc.subject	Emily Eden	es-ES
dc.subject	Fanny Parks	es-ES
dc.subject	hermanas Wallace-Dunlop	es-ES
dc.subject	Mussoorie	es-ES
dc.subject	Himalaya	es-ES
dc.subject	arquetipo	es-ES
dc.title	Doonstruck Diaries of Victorian Memsahibs: Between the Journal and Jhampaun in Mussoorie and Landour	ca-ES
dc.title	Doonstruck Diaries of Victorian Memsahibs: Between the Journal and Jhampaun in Mussoorie and Landour	en-US
dc.title	Diarios de Doon de las Memsahibs victorianas: entre el dietario y el jhampaun en Mussoorie y Landour	es-ES
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type	Article revisat per persones expertes	ca-ES