Imperial Eyes Travel Writing and Transculturation

Name: Imperial Eyes Travel Writing and Transculturation
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ISBN: 9780415438179

ISBN-10: 0415438179

ISBN-13: 9780415438179

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Mary Louise Pratt

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This second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field investigates the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readerships. Focusing on writing about South America and Africa in relation to the political and economic expansion of Europe, this long-awaited second edition of Imperial Eyes : is updated throughout, including a new preface, an updated introduction and a postscript reflecting critically on the category of the postcolonial and how it has changed since the first edition was published in 1992 contains new material, which reads well-known Latin…

Book details

List price: $46.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



1st edition contents


List of Illustrations


Prefac?


Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone



Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 Science, planetary consciousness, interiors


Narrating the anti-conquest


Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity Eros and Abolition



The reinvention of AmFrica, 1800-50 Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of Africa


Reinventing AmFrica II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales Reinventing AmFrica/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning



Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980 From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvado?


Notes


Index