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The current article addresses the travel writing trope with its multi-faceted premises. As an interdisciplinary construct, the travel text seems to encompass a wide arena of purposes that float up challenging its proclaimed exploratory and informative functions. These purposes include political, religious, ethnographic, cultural, ideological and even colonial facets that are interwoven within the folds of the travel account. We opt for three travel works to reflect the evolutionary spirit of the genre and how it impacts the shift in its load.. In so doing, and for the sake of a critical analysis of their textual enunciations, the postcolonial and deconstruction approaches are adopted to decipher the travel discourse in the three works. Such selection aims to prove that the interdisciplinary structure of the travel text has a tremendous effect on its ideological load rendering it a hybrid and polyphonic construct which disguises a discrete imperial agenda behind other facets.
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