Travellers in Africa : British travelogues, 1850-1900
著者
書誌事項
Travellers in Africa : British travelogues, 1850-1900
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1994
- : hardback
大学図書館所蔵 全18件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Bibliography: p. 215-230
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness. -- .
目次
- Adventures in Abyssinia - the terrain, mansfield parkyns - the black diamond, the hostage crisis, the reporter, the capitalist, the emissary, the outcome
- Victorian writing
- African eating - the readers digest of Africa - food and the town, raw states, eating and writing, food, commodity, and identity
- beads and cords of love - the context, Speke's cords of love, Grant's modesty and the cooking pot, Burton's baubles, Cameron - the umbrella and the loin cloth, the white man with the open hand
- "gone the cry of 'Forward, Forward'" - crisis and narrative - get Emin, the crisis of authority, troup and damages, Barttelot - the true English nature, Jameson and the good name, Jephson's class, the doctor, Ward - the adventurer, Stanley and the book
- consuming Stanley - the press, public opinion and the sham explorer, Stanley and the market
- vaporising Bula Matari - Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".
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