Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation /
by Pratt, Mary Louise.
Material type:
BookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xiv, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415438162 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0415438160 (hbk. : alk. paper); 9780415438179 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415438179 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780203932933 (ebk.); 0203932935 (ebk.).Subject(s): Imperialism | European prose literature -- History and criticism | Impérialisme | Prose européenne -- Histoire et critique | Reisbeschrijvingen | Europe -- Relations -- Latin America | Europe -- Relations -- Africa | Latin America -- Relations -- Europe | Africa -- Relations -- Europe | Latin America -- Description and travel | Africa -- Description and travel | Latin America -- Historiography | Africa -- Historiography | Europe -- Relations -- Amérique latine | Europe -- Relations -- Afrique | Amérique latine -- Relations -- Europe | Afrique -- Relations -- Europe | Amérique latine -- Descriptions et voyages | Afrique -- Descriptions et voyages | Amérique latine -- Historiographie | Afrique -- Historiographie | Afrika | Latijns-Amerika
Contents:
Introduction : criticism in the contact zone -- pt. 1. Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- Science, planetary consciousness, interiors -- Narrating the anti-conquest -- Anti-conquest II : the mystique of reciprocity -- Eros and abolition -- pt. 2. The reinvention of América, 1800-50 -- Reinventing América II : the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- Reinventing América/reinventing Europe : Creole self-fashioning -- pt. 3. Imperial stylistics, 1860-2007 -- From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador -- In the neocolony : modernity, mobility, globality.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-268) and index.
Introduction : criticism in the contact zone -- pt. 1. Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- Science, planetary consciousness, interiors -- Narrating the anti-conquest -- Anti-conquest II : the mystique of reciprocity -- Eros and abolition -- pt. 2. The reinvention of América, 1800-50 -- Reinventing América II : the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- Reinventing América/reinventing Europe : Creole self-fashioning -- pt. 3. Imperial stylistics, 1860-2007 -- From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador -- In the neocolony : modernity, mobility, globality.
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