Title Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation / Mary Louise Pratt

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1992

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Description xii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 1. Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone -- Pt. I. Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- 2. Science, planetary consciousness, interiors -- 3. Narrating the anti-conquest -- 4. Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprociry -- 5. Eros and abolition -- Pt. II. The reinvention of America, 1800-50 -- 6. Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America -- 7. Reinventing America II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- 8. Reinventing America/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning -- Pt. III. Imperial stylistics, 1860-1980 -- 9. From the Victoria Nyanza to the Sheraton San Salvador Analysis Africa Literature Special subjects Travel South America Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-250) and index Notes Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) SUBJECT Méthodes & traités. Série III, Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002037865 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074879 Subject European prose literature -- History and criticism. Imperialism. Travel in literature. Travel writing -- History. Travel. Colonialism. Culture. Historiography. SUBJECT Africa -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001543 Africa -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100772 Africa -- Relations -- Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114077 Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531 Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074879 Latin America -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074885 Latin America -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116021 Latin America -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129903 -- Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 Author Ebooks Corporation. LC no. 91021435 ISBN 041502675X 0415060958 (paperback)

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