چکیده

Following the publication of Edward Said`s Orientalism (1978) and his argument about the discursive construction of the Orient in Western writing, critical research on travel books has flourished in recent decades. It has questioned and at times even refuted the truth value of travel books as presenting travellers’ eye-witness accounts of the traversed country. Even though representation of Persians and their culture in British travel texts on Persia has been studied from various perspectives, Onéra Amelia Merritt-Hawkes` Persia: Romance and Reality (1935) has not received much critical attention. This paper aims to offer a Deleuzo-Guattarian reading of her travel account deploying concepts of assemblage, line of flight, and becoming which are relatively overlooked in the field of travel studies. It argues that Merritt-Hawkes, as an individual assemblage, goes through a process of deterritorialization and becoming-Persian during her travel in Persia and engaging with Persian others in the contact zone. Merritt-Hawkes’ becoming towards the other activates her lines of flight from the majoritarian standards which are based on a hierarchical framework of self/ other; this allows her to adopt a relative perspective which appreciates otherness as diversity on its own terms rather than translating it as an inferior copy of the majoritarian norms.

کليدواژه ها

Persia, travel writing, Merritt-Hawkes, assemblage, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, line of flight

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Farah Ghaderi , 1398 , Becoming-Persian in Merritt-Hawkes` Persia: Romance and Reality , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي