false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177820855m/734931.jpg 734931 1 <div>Travel writing has become central to postcolonial studies; this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the genre. It combines detailed evaluations of major contemporary models of analysis--new historicism, travelling theory, and post-colonial studies--with a series of specific studies detailing the complicity of the genre with a history of violent incursion. These explore: "Othering" discourses--of cannibalism and infanticide; the production of colonial knowledge--geographic, medicinal, zoological; the role of sexual anxiety in the construction of the gendered travelling body; the interplay between imperial and domestic spheres; reappropriation of alien discourse by indigenous cultures. The book resists the temptation to think in terms of a simple monolithic Eurocentrism and offers a more complex reading of texts produced before, during and after periods of imperial ascendancy. In doing so, it provides a more nuanced account of the hegemonic functions of travel-writing.<br></div> 721115 1999 Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit total:1|4:1| 1 4 3 1 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 18:42:14 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 18:42:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 09 08:16:58 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 12:57:36 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 08:16:58 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Apr 09 11:40:10 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 11:40:10 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=734931