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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415060958

ISBN-139780415060950

eBay Product ID (ePID)955117

Product Key Features

Book TitleImperial Eyes : Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturization

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCentral America, Africa / General, Imperialism, General, International Relations / General, Latin America / General

Publication Year1992

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Travel, Political Science, History

AuthorMary L. Pratt

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight16.9 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience

LCCN91-021435

Dewey Edition20

Grade FromCollege Freshman

Dewey Decimal940

Table Of Content1st edition contentsList of IllustrationsPreface 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 Amèrica, 1800-50 Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of Amèrica Reinventing Amèrica II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales Reinventing Amèrica/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning Part III Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980 From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador NotesIndex

SynopsisStudies 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, tended to remain either naively celebratory, or dismissive, treating texts as symptoms of imperial ideologies. Imperial Eyes explores European travel and exploration writing, in conjunction with European economic and political expansion since 1700. It is both a study in the genre and a critique of an 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 travel accounts connected with particular sentimental historical travel writing. It examines the links with abolitionist rhetoric; discursive reinventions of South America during the period of its independence (1800-1840); and 18th-century European writings on Southern Africa in the context of inland expansion., Pratt intriguingly explores European travel and exploration writing. In a study of genre and as a critique of ideology, Imperial Eyes examines how travel books by Europeans create the domestic subject of European imperialism.

LC Classification NumberD34.L29P73 1991