Travel Writing, Form, and Empire
The Poetics and Politics of Mobility
Herausgeber: Kuehn, Julia; Smethurst, Paul
Travel Writing, Form, and Empire
The Poetics and Politics of Mobility
Herausgeber: Kuehn, Julia; Smethurst, Paul
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This volume 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 imperialist discourse.
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This volume 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 imperialist discourse.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
- Gewicht: 358g
- ISBN-13: 9780415542500
- ISBN-10: 0415542502
- Artikelnr.: 35452130
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
- Gewicht: 358g
- ISBN-13: 9780415542500
- ISBN-10: 0415542502
- Artikelnr.: 35452130
Julia Kuehn teaches English literature at the University of Hong Kong. Her publications include Glorious Vulgarity: Marie Corelli's Feminine Sublime in a Popular Context (2004), A Century of Travels in China: Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s (ed., 2007), and China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces (ed., forthcoming 2009). Paul Smethurst is Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His publications include The Postmodern Chronotope (2000) and The Reinvention of Nature: Scientific, Picturesque and Romantic Travel Writing (forthcoming). He is co-editor with Steve Clark of Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and South East Asia (2008).
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
PAUL SMETHURST
PART ONE: The Discursive Terrains of Empire
1. Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester John
MARY BAINE CAMPBELL
2. Richard Hakluyt's Foreign Relations
MARY FULLER
3. Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636
JACK WARWICK
4. The Page as Private/ Public Space in Mariana Starke's Travel Writings
on Italy
SUSAN PICKFORD
5. The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of Power
ALI BEHDAD
6. Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin
EADAOIN AGNEW
7. Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau's Eastern Travels
LESA SCHOLL
PART TWO: Unravelling Forms of Travel
8. Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in Ecuador
DAVID SCOTT
9. Deep Maps: Travelling on the Spot
PETER HULME
10. Making it Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's Artifact
TIM YOUNGS
11. Reconciliation and Contemporary Australian Travel Writing
ROBERT CLARKE
12. To Witness & Remember: Reconciliation Travel
PETER BISHOP
13. The Political Tourist's Archive: Susan Meiselar's Images of Nicaragua
MAUREEN MOYNAGH
14. Road to Nowhere? Los autonautas de la cosmopista by Julio Cortázar
and Carol Dunlop
CLAIRE LINDSAY
Afterword - Travel and Power
BILL ASHCROFT
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Figures
Introduction
PAUL SMETHURST
PART ONE: The Discursive Terrains of Empire
1. Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester John
MARY BAINE CAMPBELL
2. Richard Hakluyt's Foreign Relations
MARY FULLER
3. Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636
JACK WARWICK
4. The Page as Private/ Public Space in Mariana Starke's Travel Writings
on Italy
SUSAN PICKFORD
5. The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of Power
ALI BEHDAD
6. Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin
EADAOIN AGNEW
7. Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau's Eastern Travels
LESA SCHOLL
PART TWO: Unravelling Forms of Travel
8. Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in Ecuador
DAVID SCOTT
9. Deep Maps: Travelling on the Spot
PETER HULME
10. Making it Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's Artifact
TIM YOUNGS
11. Reconciliation and Contemporary Australian Travel Writing
ROBERT CLARKE
12. To Witness & Remember: Reconciliation Travel
PETER BISHOP
13. The Political Tourist's Archive: Susan Meiselar's Images of Nicaragua
MAUREEN MOYNAGH
14. Road to Nowhere? Los autonautas de la cosmopista by Julio Cortázar
and Carol Dunlop
CLAIRE LINDSAY
Afterword - Travel and Power
BILL ASHCROFT
Notes on Contributors
Index
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
PAUL SMETHURST
PART ONE: The Discursive Terrains of Empire
1. Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester John
MARY BAINE CAMPBELL
2. Richard Hakluyt's Foreign Relations
MARY FULLER
3. Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636
JACK WARWICK
4. The Page as Private/ Public Space in Mariana Starke's Travel Writings
on Italy
SUSAN PICKFORD
5. The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of Power
ALI BEHDAD
6. Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin
EADAOIN AGNEW
7. Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau's Eastern Travels
LESA SCHOLL
PART TWO: Unravelling Forms of Travel
8. Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in Ecuador
DAVID SCOTT
9. Deep Maps: Travelling on the Spot
PETER HULME
10. Making it Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's Artifact
TIM YOUNGS
11. Reconciliation and Contemporary Australian Travel Writing
ROBERT CLARKE
12. To Witness & Remember: Reconciliation Travel
PETER BISHOP
13. The Political Tourist's Archive: Susan Meiselar's Images of Nicaragua
MAUREEN MOYNAGH
14. Road to Nowhere? Los autonautas de la cosmopista by Julio Cortázar
and Carol Dunlop
CLAIRE LINDSAY
Afterword - Travel and Power
BILL ASHCROFT
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Figures
Introduction
PAUL SMETHURST
PART ONE: The Discursive Terrains of Empire
1. Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester John
MARY BAINE CAMPBELL
2. Richard Hakluyt's Foreign Relations
MARY FULLER
3. Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636
JACK WARWICK
4. The Page as Private/ Public Space in Mariana Starke's Travel Writings
on Italy
SUSAN PICKFORD
5. The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of Power
ALI BEHDAD
6. Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin
EADAOIN AGNEW
7. Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau's Eastern Travels
LESA SCHOLL
PART TWO: Unravelling Forms of Travel
8. Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in Ecuador
DAVID SCOTT
9. Deep Maps: Travelling on the Spot
PETER HULME
10. Making it Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's Artifact
TIM YOUNGS
11. Reconciliation and Contemporary Australian Travel Writing
ROBERT CLARKE
12. To Witness & Remember: Reconciliation Travel
PETER BISHOP
13. The Political Tourist's Archive: Susan Meiselar's Images of Nicaragua
MAUREEN MOYNAGH
14. Road to Nowhere? Los autonautas de la cosmopista by Julio Cortázar
and Carol Dunlop
CLAIRE LINDSAY
Afterword - Travel and Power
BILL ASHCROFT
Notes on Contributors
Index