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Travel Writing (travel + writing)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

In Conrad's Footsteps: Critical Approaches to Africanist Travel Writing

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2006
Robert Burroughs
Travel writing about Central Africa in English reverberates with the language of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This essay considers how that canonical text, in shaping twentieth-century travellers' understandings of Central Africa and the travel genre, also shapes literary critics' understandings of the same subjects. [source]

The Experienced Traveller as a Professional Author: Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt, Georg Forster and Colonialism Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany

HISTORY, Issue 317 2010
CHEN TZOREF-ASHKENAZI
The aim of this article is to show the centrality of the concept of experience in the cultural industry of travel writing in eighteenth-century Germany as well as examining the influence of British colonial discourse on German interpretations of the non-European world. The first aim is achieved through analysing the literary career of Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt, who on the basis of a five-year stay in India, was able to claim the status of expert on the non-European world and become the author of many books on a variety of subjects related to travel. His case is compared to that of Georg Forster, whose career was similarly shaped by the experience of travel. Both of them represent relatively rare examples in the eighteenth century of literary agents with actual experience in travel outside Europe. The second aim is achieved through an analysis of Langstedt's interpretations of India, showing how his support for East India Company rule was based on uncritical borrowings from British sources. A comparison with Forster's more critical treatment of British colonialism in India shows that Forster was much influenced by British sources. [source]

Janus and Gender: Women and the Nation's Backward Look

NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, Issue 4 2000
Tricia Cusack
This article considers how nations are imagined and characterised in relation to the national roles allocated to women, with particular reference to the early Irish state. It examines two related dichotomies, that between ,civic' and ,ethnic' nationalisms, and the concept of the nation itself as ,Janus-faced', simultaneously looking ahead to the future and back to the past. It has been suggested that women bore the burden of the nation's ,backward look' towards a putative traditional rural past and an organic community, while men appropriated the nation's present and future. This thesis is examined with reference to Ireland and the representation of women in visual imagery and travel writing. [source]