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The article analyses representations of the natural world in Indonesia and mainland Southeast Asia in a corpus of Polish and Serbian travel writings for the period between the opening of the Suez Canal (1869) and the outbreak of the First World War (1914). The research is based on travel writings by twenty Polish and Serbian authors, who visited Southeast Asia during the period 1869-1914. Scrutinizing a corpus of such narratives should contribute to the study of perceptions of Southeast Asia, especially among travellers from very diverse backgrounds. The theoretical and conceptual framework of the article draws on works by other scholars who have analysed travel writings, imaginative geography, representations of Southeast Asia, and tropicality. The study focuses on four areas: 1) images of the luxuriant tropics, 2) images of the perilous tropics, 3) exploitation of its natural resources, and 4) nature and identity.

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In recent years, Vietnamese literature has seen the rise of women writers in a genre traditionally dominated by men travel writing. Phuong Mai, Huyen Chip, Dinh Hang, among others, are just a few who have introduced innovations to this genre. This paper investigates the practice of contemporary Vietnamese women travel writers and how they differ in perception compared to their male counterparts. One of the most crucial differences is that women perform cultural embodiment, employing their bodies instead of their minds. An encounter of the woman writer with other cultures is, therefore, an encounter between the body and the very physical conditions of culture, which leads to a will to change, to transform, more than a desire to conquer, to penetrate the other. Utilizing the concept deterritorialization developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, this paper argues that despite being deemed fragile and without protection, womens bodies are in fact fluid and able to open new possibilities of land and culture often stripped away by masculinist ideology.

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Hans Vervoort, penulis Belanda yang lahir di Hindia-Belanda, menulis dua cerita perjalanan mengenai Indonesia pasca repatriasinya ke Belanda, yaitu Van Onder De Koperen Ploert (1975) yang berlatar di Jawa dan Retourtje Tropen (2005) yang bercerita mengenai Jawa dan Sumatra. Dalam dua buku tersebut, pencerita Aku yang berlatar belakang kolonial dihadapkan pada perubahan objek-objek dalam ruang fisik dan sosial Indonesia pada dua periode di masa pascakolonial. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memaparkan representasi Indonesia yang diwakili oleh dua pulau dalam dua cerita perjalanan tersebut. Gambaran setiap objek dalam dua buku diselisik dan disandingkan untuk melihat perubahan dan pergeseran representasi Indonesia. Selanjutnya, mengacu pada teori Orientalisme (Said, 1977), representasi ini dianalisis lebih lanjut untuk melihat narasi mengenai Indonesia sebagai Timur yang sarat dengan wacana kolonial dan poskolonial. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan perg eseran representasi Indonesia dari negatif ke positif namun masih menunjukkan cara pandang kolonial. 

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Hans Vervoort, a Dutch-Indies-born author, wrote two travel writings to Indonesia posterior to his repatriation to the Netherlands, which are Van Onder De Koperen Ploert (1975) that is set in Java and Retourtje Tropen (2005) that tells about the same setting with Sumatra as addition. In these two books, the I-narrator with his colonial background observes the postcolonial Indonesia, represented by the two islands, in two periods along with changes in its social and physical space. This research aims to describe the representation of Indonesia in the two travel writings. The description of significant objects is analyzed to see the changes and shifts in the representation of Indonesia. The representation then, using Orientalism theory (Said, 1977), is examined to reveal the narration of Indonesia as The Orient that indicates colonial as well as postcolonial discourses. The result shows a shift where Indonesia is represented more positively yet still in the view of colonial eyes.