Eternally on a Journey: Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s On a Truck Alone, to McMahon

This paper explores the complex and uncertain position that women’s travel narratives occupy within the conventions of travel writing. As writers of journeyworks, women have to insistently engage in discursive struggles alongside the struggle of occupying and traversing spaces not readily hospitable to their presence. The study focuses on Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s travelogue On a Truck Alone, to McMahon and analyses how her writing constantly challenges and reworks representational and spatial constrictions that frame women’s mobility and freedom.