Travellers in Africa : British travelogues, 1850-1900
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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
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Note
Bibliography: p. 215-230
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. -- .
Table of Contents
- 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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