ABSTRACT This paper engages in an empirical examination of the construction of postcolonial Sri Lanka by the field of tourism and the role and identity of local travel writers within this process. As such, it examines the significance of the writers’ identities to the constructed representations. I demonstrate how these writers have been socialised/indoctrinated into the practice of world citizenship, its institutions and its norms/ethics. Most significantly, they generate a gloss that covers local realities, underlying the ‘cosmetic’ writing they engage in for tourism. Thus, the paper explores explicitly how this role is firmly intertwined with the privileged, elite position of those that become writers (in English) within the hierarchical class system of Sri Lanka. Using a Bourdieusian framework, I argue that this position of the travel writer is accessible by/restricted to individuals with certain cultural capital such as the English language and education, resources, opportunities to study English literature within elite urban schools and exposure to an international culture of travel and tourism. The knowledge germinated from their writing significantly impacts the way Sri Lanka is represented within legitimised systems of ‘worldmaking’ /knowledge production leading to particular understandings of Sri Lanka within international tourism.

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二十个二十世纪的斯里兰卡旅游代表：探索世界旅游业的作用及其对当地旅游作家的影响

摘要本文对旅游业以及当地旅行作家在此过程中的作用和身份进行了实证研究，以考察后殖民斯里兰卡的建设。因此，它检验了作者身份对建构表征的重要性。我展示了这些作家如何被社会化/灌输到世界公民的实践，其制度及其规范/伦理中。最重要的是，它们产生的光泽度涵盖了当地的实际情况，是他们从事旅游业的“美容”文字的基础。因此，本文明确探讨了这一角色如何与斯里兰卡等级制体系中那些成为（英语）作家的特权，精英地位紧密地交织在一起。使用布迪厄斯式的框架，我认为，具有某些文化资本（例如英语和教育，资源，在城市精英学校学习英语文学的机会以及接触国际旅行和旅游文化）的个人可以/仅限于旅行作家的这一职位。从他们的写作中萌发的知识极大地影响了斯里兰卡在“世界创造” /知识生产合法体系中的代表方式，从而使斯里兰卡在国际旅游业中有了特殊的了解。