Imperial Eyes : Travel Writing and Transculturation
'Imperial Eyes' is a study of travel writing, European expansion, and the dynamics of meaning-making on the imperial frontier. Focusing on travel and exploration writing about Africa and South America in relation to European economics and political expansion since around 1750, 'Imperi...
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Sprache: | Anglais |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
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Autres tirages : 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Variante du titre: | Travel Writing and Transculturation |
Inhaltsangabe:
- List of Illustrations.
- Preface.
- 1: Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone.
- PART I : Science and sentiment, 1750-1800.
- 2: Science, planetary consciousness, interiors.
- 3: Narrating the anti-conquest.
- 4: Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity.
- 5: Eros and Abolition.
- PART II :The reinvention of América, 1800-50
- 6: Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of América.
- 7: Reinventing América II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales.
- 8: Reinventing América/Reinventing Europe: creole self-fashioning.
- PART III : Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980.
- 9: From the Victoria N yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador.
- Notes.
- Index