📚 Literature & History Master's

Postcolonial Readings of Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

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Nineteenth-century travel writing produced the imperial periphery as an object of knowledge at the same time as it claimed merely to describe it. This essay applies postcolonial critical method to a selection of Victorian travel narratives, and argues that the genre's characteristic rhetorical move — the shift from observation to generalisation — is where its ideological work is done.

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1 Abstract
2 Travel Writing as Knowledge Production
3 Said and the Orientalist Archive
4 The Rhetoric of Disinterested Observation
5 From Description to Generalisation
6 Counter-Narratives and Their Recovery
7 Conclusion
8 References

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