| American Travel and Empire Contributor(s): Castillo, Susan (Editor), Seed, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1846311802 ISBN-13: 9781846311802 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: In this volume, leading scholars examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and empire. Including both writing about America by visitors and the travel writing of Americans abroad, this collection explores the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized areas shaped our perceptions, as well as other issues related to the American empire, such as the transmission of images and metaphor between colony and metropolis, the portrayal of cultures as primitive or wild, the cultural and economic hegemony underlying American and European travel writing, and the deployment of cultural encounters to reinforce sovereign cultural practices. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.9 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.44" W x 9.44" (1.25 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this collection leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term 'American' is used here in the hemispheric sense and 'American travel writing' includes both writing about America by visitors and writings by Americans abroad. The contributors are recognized specialists in different periods of American literature and travel writing. The essays explore the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized territories shaped perceptions of these areas; the transmission images and metaphors between colony and metropole; the othering of non-scribal cultures as 'primitive' or 'wild'; the deployment of representations of encounters between European and other cultures in order to critique or reinforce European or American values and cultural practices; the tacit assumptions of cultural or economic hegemony underlying U.S. or European travel writing. |