Journeys and Meta-Journeys: Negotiating Travel Writing in Sree Parabat’s ‘Novels in Motion’

Abstract

Travel writing as a genre tends to elude the practice of academic pigeonholing. Debates over
what qualifies as travel writing par excellence, who is a traveller proper, acceptable ratio of fact
and fiction et al have been engendered and proliferated. This paper is an attempt to create
another lacuna in these porous walls of from the perspective of historical fiction. Herein, the
texts that stand to craft this aperture are the works of the Bengali author named Prabir Kumar
Goswami, alias Sree Parabat.