| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : criticism in the contact zone -- pt. 1. Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- Science, planetary consciousness, interiors -- Narrating the anti-conquest -- Anti-conquest II : the mystique of reciprocity -- Eros and abolition -- pt. 2. The reinvention of América, 1800-50 -- Reinventing América II : the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- Reinventing América/reinventing Europe : Creole self-fashioning -- pt. 3. Imperial stylistics, 1860-2007 -- From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador -- In the neocolony : modernity, mobility, globality |
| Summary |
"How has travel writing produced 'the rest of the world' for European readerships? How does one speak of transculturation from the colonies to the metropolis? Studies in colonial and exploration discourse have identified the enormous significance of travel writing as an ideological apparatus of Empire. The study of travel writing has, however, remained either naively celebratory or dismissive, treating texts as symptoms of imperial ideologies. Imperial Eyes explores European travel and exploration writing, in connection with European economic and political expansion since 1700. It is both a study in genre, and a critique of ideology. Pratt examines how travel books by Europeans create the domestic subject of European imperialism, and how they engage metropolitan reading publics with expansionist enterprises whose material benefits accrued mainly to the very few. These questions are addressed through readings of particular travel accounts connected with particular historical transitions, from the eighteenth century to Paul Theroux: sentimental travel writing and its links with abolitionist rhetoric, discursive reinventions of South America during the period of its independence (1800-1840), and eighteenth-century European writings on Southern Africa in the context of inland expansion."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-268) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Imperialism.
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European prose literature -- History and criticism
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HISTORY.
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Imperialism.
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European prose literature -- History and criticism.
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European prose literature
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Historiography
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Imperialism
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International relations
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Travel
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Imperialismus
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Reiseliteratur
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Literaturbeziehungen
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Prosa
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Reisbeschrijvingen.
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Reseskildringar.
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Europa och Latinamerika.
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Europe -- Relations -- Latin America
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Europe -- Relations -- Africa
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Latin America -- Relations -- Europe
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Africa -- Relations -- Europe
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Latin America -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074885
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Africa -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001543
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Latin America -- Historiography
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Africa -- Historiography
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Europe -- Relations -- Latin America.
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Africa
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Europe
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Latin America
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Europa
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Afrika
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Lateinamerika
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Afrika.
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Latijns-Amerika.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007024479 |
| ISBN |
9780203932933 |
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0203932935 |
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9786611457150 |
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6611457151 |
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0415438179 |
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9780415438179 |
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