| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Travel Writing, 1 |
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Routledge Research in Travel Writing, 1
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: The Discursive Terrains of Empire; 1 Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester John; 2 Richard Hakluyt's Foreign Relations; 3 Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636; 4 The Page as Private/Public Space in Mariana Starke's Travel Writings on Italy; 5 The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of Power; 6 Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin; 7 Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau's Eastern Travels |
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Part Two: Unravelling Forms of Travel8 Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in Ecuador; 9 Deep maps: Travelling on the Spot; 10 Making It Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's Artifact; 11 Reconciling Strangers: White Australian Travel Narratives and the Semiotics of Empathy; 12 To Witness and Remember: Mapping Reconciliation Travel; 13 The Political Tourist's Archive: Susan Meiselas's Images of Nicaragua; 14 Road to Nowhere?: Los autonautas de la cosmo |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Travel writing.
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Travelers' writings -- History and criticism
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Travel writing
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Travelers' writings
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smethurst, Paul
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| ISBN |
9780203890974 |
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0203890973 |
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