Travel writing, form and empire : the poetics and politics of mobility
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Travel writing, form and empire : the poetics and politics of mobility
(Routledge research in travel writing, 1)
Routledge, 2012, c2009
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"First issued in paperback 2012"--T.p. verso
"The essays in this volume have been worked up from papers originally presented at the Mobilis in Mobile International Conference on Studies in Travel Writing, held at the University of Hong Kong in July 2005"--Acknowledgements
Includes index
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Description
This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath.
Starting from the premise that travel writing studies has received much of its impetus and theoretical input from the sometimes overgeneralized precepts of postcolonial studies and gender studies, this collection aims to explore more widely and more locally the expression of imperialist discourse in travel writing, and also to locate within contemporary travel writing attempts to evade or re-engage with the power politics of such discourse. There is a double focus then to explore further postcolonial theory in European travel writing (Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanic), and to trace the emergence of postcolonial forms of travel writing. The thread that draws the two halves of the collection together is an interest in form and relations between form and travel.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
PAUL SMETHURST
PART ONE: The Discursive Terrains of Empire
Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester John
MARY BAINE CAMPBELL
Richard Hakluyt's Foreign Relations
MARY FULLER
Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636
JACK WARWICK
The Page as Private/ Public Space in Mariana Starke's Travel Writings on Italy
SUSAN PICKFORD
The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of Power
ALI BEHDAD
Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin
EADAOIN AGNEW
Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau's Eastern Travels
LESA SCHOLL
PART TWO: Unravelling Forms of Travel
Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in Ecuador
DAVID SCOTT
Deep Maps: Travelling on the Spot
PETER HULME
Making it Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's Artifact
TIM YOUNGS
Reconciliation and Contemporary Australian Travel Writing
ROBERT CLARKE
To Witness & Remember: Reconciliation Travel
PETER BISHOP
The Political Tourist's Archive: Susan Meiselar's Images of Nicaragua
MAUREEN MOYNAGH
Road to Nowhere? Los autonautas de la cosmopista by Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop
CLAIRE LINDSAY
Afterword - Travel and Power
BILL ASHCROFT
Notes on Contributors
Index
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