Travel Writing, Form, and Empire (eBook, PDF)

The Poetics and Politics of Mobility
Redaktion: Kuehn, Julia; Smethurst, Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135894559
• Artikelnr.: 42983698

Autorenporträt

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).

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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