Travel Writing and Empire
Subtitle: Postcolonial Theory in Transit
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: September 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781856496285
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Current Affairs; Travelers' writings, English; Sociology; Travel writing; Postcolonialism; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations; Discrimination & Racism; International; British; Foreign countries
First sentence: The task of constituting a formalistic approach to travel writing was largely abandoned in the early 1980s; in this chapter I argue that the project might yet illuminate some discursive operations of the travel text.