Imperial Eyes

Travel Writing and Transculturation

Mary Louise Pratt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

1992
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-02675-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Presents an investigation of the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readerships. This book focuses on writing about South America and Africa in relation to political and economic expansion of Europe. It also presents various Latin American texts through the concept of neocoloniality.

Inhalt

1st edition contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone Part I Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 Science, planetary consciousness, interiors Narrating the anti-conquest Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity Eros and Abolition Part II The reinvention of America, 1800-50 Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America Reinventing America II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales Reinventing America/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning Part III Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980 From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador Notes Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.1.1992
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 612 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-415-02675-X / 041502675X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-415-02675-8 / 9780415026758
• Zustand: Neuware