Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies; this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the genre. It combines detailed evaluations of major contemporary models of analysis--new historicism, travelling theory, and post-colonial studies--with a series of specific studies detailing the complicity of the genre with a history of violent incursion. These explore: "Othering" discourses--of cannibalism and infanticide; the production of colonial knowledge--geographic, medicinal, zoological; the role of sexual anxiety in the construction of the gendered travelling body; the interplay between imperial and domestic spheres; reappropriation of alien discourse by indigenous cultures. The book resists the temptation to think in terms of a simple monolithic Eurocentrism and offers a more complex reading of texts produced before, during and after periods of imperial ascendancy. In doing so, it provides a more nuanced account of the hegemonic functions of travel-writing.
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Stephen Clark is Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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The task of constituting a formalistic approach to travel writing was largely abandoned in the early 1980s; in this chapter I argue that the project might yet illuminate some discursive operations of the travel text. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
travelling subject, territorial passage, travel genre, travelling theory, travel text, travel writing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Embassy Letters, Monthly Review, Critical Review, South America, United States, Los Angeles, New York, Lady Craven, Lord Craven, The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, Imperial Eyes, Mary Louise Pratt, Paul Hyland, Dennis Porter, Hakluyt Society, Lady Bute, Ottoman Empire, Queen Elizabeth, Sam Selvon, Sierra Leone, The Guyana Quartet, West Indian New!
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The task of constituting a formalistic approach to travel writing was largely abandoned in the early 1980s; in this chapter I argue that the project might yet illuminate some discursive operations of the travel text. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
travelling subject, territorial passage, travel genre, travelling theory, travel text, travel writing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Embassy Letters, Monthly Review, Critical Review, South America, United States, Los Angeles, New York, Lady Craven, Lord Craven, The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, Imperial Eyes, Mary Louise Pratt, Paul Hyland, Dennis Porter, Hakluyt Society, Lady Bute, Ottoman Empire, Queen Elizabeth, Sam Selvon, Sierra Leone, The Guyana Quartet, West Indian New!
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- The Guyana Quartet by Wilson Harris on 5 pages
- The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron on 4 pages
- Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford on page 189, page 193, and Back Matter
- Old Glory: An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban on page 212, page 220, and Back Matter
- Origin of the Distinction of Ranks, The (Natural Law Paper) by John Millar on page 131, page 135, and Back Matter
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- Perspectives on Travel Writing (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Glenn Hooper on 7 pages
- The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing by Debbie Lisle on 4 pages
- Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900 by Josephine McDonagh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- International Relations in Uncommon Places: Indigeneity, Cosmology, and the Limits of International Theory by J. Marshall Beier in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Tourist's Gaze: Travellers to Ireland, 1800 - 2000 by Glenn Hooper in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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