Travel writing and empire : postcolonial theory in transit
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Travel writing and empire : postcolonial theory in transit
Zed Books, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies. This book provides an introduction to the genre, particularly to its dynamics of power and representation, and the degree to which it has promoted ideologies of empire.
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' reports from the New World through to the nomadism of postmodern travelogue.
Among its particular areas of concern are
* '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
* reappropration of alien discourse by indigenous cultures.
Post-colonial 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.
目次
Contents
Introduction - Steve Clark
Part 1: Methods
1. Travel and Unsettlement - Brian Musgrove
2. Argonauts of Western Pessimism:
Clifford's Ethnographia - John Hutnyk
3. Lagging Behind: Bhabha, Postcolonial Theory and the Future - John Philips
Part 2: Prefigurations fo Empire
4. The Discourse of Cannibalism in Early Modern Travel-Writing - Ted Motohashi
5. Writing Up the Log: The Legacy of Hakluyt - T.J. Cribb
6. From Classical to Imperial: Changing Visions of Turkey in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lady Elizabeth Craven - Katherine Turner
Part 3: High Imperial Taxonomy and Gender
7. 'Stifling Pity in a Parent's Breast':
Infanticide and Savagery in late Eighteenth-Century Travel-Writing - Bridgett Orr
8. Gender and Genre in Nineteenth-Century Travel-Writing:
Leonic D'Aunet and Xavier Marmier - Wendy Mercer
9. Ecologies of Desire: Nature-Writing as Travelogue - Richard Kerridge
Part 4: Postmodern Travelogue
10. The Road to Brixton Market: A Post-colonial Travelogue - Gabriel Gbadamosi
11. Bruce Chatwin: Connoisseur of Exile, Exile as Connoisseur - David Taylor
12. Transatlantic Crossings: Contemporary British Travel Writing on the US - Steve Clark
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