Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

ISBN-13: 9780415438162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 296 str.

Pratt; Mary Louise Pratt

Opis

Focusing on writing about South America and Africa in relation to the political and economic expansion of Europe, this second edition continues to investigate the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readers.

Spis treści

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 América, 1800-50 Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of América Reinventing América II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales Reinventing América/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning Part III Imperial Stylistics, 1860-1980 From the Victoria N’yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador Notes Index

O autorze

Mary Louise Pratt is Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and literatures at New York University, and formerly Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She has published widely in the areas of Latin American literature and society, comparative literature, gender studies, and the cultural study of colonialism and imperialism. She was president of the Modern Language Association in 2003