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Travel writing and empire : postcolonial theory in transit

"The book 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 from Columbus's reports from the New World through to the nomadism of postmodern travelogue." "Postcolonial studies has concentrated on travellers as conduits of erasure and appropriation. This 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 ascendency. In doing so, it provides a more nuanced account of the hegemonic functions of travel writing. As such it is necessary reading for students and academics of cultural studies, literary theory, anthropology and history."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 1999
Zed Books : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, London, New York, 1999
Aufsatzsammlung
264 pages ; 23 cm
9781856496278, 9781856496285, 1856496279, 1856496287
40964953
1. Introduction / Steve Clark
pt. I. Methods
2. Travel and Unsettlement: Freud on Vacation / Brian Musgrove
3. Argonauts of Western Pessimism: Clifford's Malinowski / John Hutnyk
4. Lagging Behind: Bhabha, Post-colonial Theory and the Future / John Phillips
pt. II. Prefigurations of Empire
5. The Discourse of Cannibalism in Early Modern Travel Writing / Ted Motohashi
6. Writing up the Log: The Legacy of Hakluyt / T.J. Cribb
7. From Classical to Imperial: Changing Visions of Turkey in the Eighteenth Century / Katherine S.H. Turner
pt. III. High Imperial: Taxonomy and Gender
8. 'Stifling Pity in a Parent's Breast': Infanticide and Savagery in Late Eighteenth-century Travel Writing / Bridget Orr
9. Gender and Genre in Nineteenth-century Travel Writing: Leonie d'Aunet and Xavier Marmier / Wendy S. Mercer
10. Ecologies of Desire: Travel Writing and Nature Writing as Travelogue / Richard Kerridge
pt. IV. Postmodern Travelogue
11. The Road to Brixton Market: A Post-colonial Travelogue / Gabriel Gbadamosi
12. Bruce Chatwin: Connoisseur of Exile, Exile as Connoisseur / David Taylor
13. Transatlantic Crossings: Recent British Travel Writing on the United States / Steve Clark