Travel Writing, Form, and Empire The Poetics and Politics of Mobility Routledge Research in Travel Writing Series
Coordonnateurs : Kuehn Julia, Smethurst Paul
This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath.
Starting from the premise that travel writing studies has received much of its impetus and theoretical input from the sometimes overgeneralized precepts of postcolonial studies and gender studies, this collection aims to explore more widely and more locally the expression of imperialist discourse in travel writing, and also to locate within contemporary travel writing attempts to evade or re-engage with the power politics of such discourse. There is a double focus then to explore further postcolonial theory in European travel writing (Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanic), and to trace the emergence of postcolonial forms of travel writing. The thread that draws the two halves of the collection together is an interest in form and relations between form and travel.
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
PAUL SMETHURST
PART ONE: The Discursive Terrains of Empire
- Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing the Land of Prester John
MARY BAINE CAMPBELL - Richard Hakluyt’s Foreign Relations
- Imperial Design and Travel Writing: New France 1603-1636
JACK WARWICK - The Page as Private/ Public Space in Mariana Starke’s Travel Writings on Italy
SUSAN PICKFORD - The Politics of Adventure: Theories of Travel, Discourses of Power
ALI BEHDAD - Relocating Domesticity: Letters from India by Lady Hariot Dufferin
EADAOIN AGNEW - Translating Culture: Harriet Martineau’s Eastern Travels
LESA SCHOLL - Signs in the Jungle: Michaux in Ecuador
DAVID SCOTT - Deep Maps: Travelling on the Spot
PETER HULME - Making it Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella's Artifact
TIM YOUNGS - Reconciliation and Contemporary Australian Travel Writing
ROBERT CLARKE - To Witness & Remember: Reconciliation Travel
PETER BISHOP - The Political Tourist’s Archive: Susan Meiselar’s Images of Nicaragua
MAUREEN MOYNAGH - Road to Nowhere? Los autonautas de la cosmopista by Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop
CLAIRE LINDSAY
MARY FULLER
PART TWO: Unravelling Forms of Travel
Afterword - Travel and Power
BILL ASHCROFT
Notes on Contributors
Index
Julia Kuehn teaches English literature at the University of Hong Kong. Her publications include Glorious Vulgarity: Marie Corelli’s Feminine Sublime in a Popular Context (2004), A Century of Travels in China: Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s (ed., 2007), and China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces (ed., forthcoming 2009).
Paul Smethurst is Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His publications include The Postmodern Chronotope (2000) and The Reinvention of Nature: Scientific, Picturesque and Romantic Travel Writing (forthcoming). He is co-editor with Steve Clark of Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and South East Asia (2008).
Date de parution : 06-2012
Ouvrage de 266 p.
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 12-2008
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème de Travel Writing, Form, and Empire :
Mots-clés :
Travel Writers; Confer; literature; Follow; narrative; Postcolonial Travel Writing; paddy; Pause; roe; Young Man; postcolonial; Women’s Travel Writing; gabriel; Lady Dufferin; sagard; Women Travellers; marc; Travel Narrative; lescarbot; Discursive Practice; marco; Marco Polo; Richard Hakluyt; Chase County; Australian Travel Writing; Thoreau; Tour; Subcontinent; Chaplain; Political Tourist; Histoire De La Nouvelle France; Susan Meiselas; Principal Navigations; Imperialist Travel Writing; European Travel Writing