Travel Writing And Atrocities

Author : Robert M. Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136953439

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This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers, missionaries, consuls, journalists, soldiers, and traders produced evidence of misrule in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo, which they described their travel and witnessing of colonial violence in travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography, and more. As well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In particular, whereas earlier antislavery travelers had tended to promote British imperial expansion as a remedy to slavery, travel texts produced for the three major humanitarian campaigns of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century expressed — and, indeed, gave rise to — changes in the perception of Britain as a nation for whom the protection of Africans remained paramount. Burroughs's study charts the emergence of a subversive eyewitness response in travel writing, which implicated Britons and British industries in the continuing existence of slave labor in regions formally ruled by other nations.

Author : Robert M. Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136953446

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Travel Writing and Atrocities by Robert M. Burroughs Pdf

This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers, missionaries, consuls, journalists, soldiers, and traders produced evidence of misrule in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo, which they described their travel and witnessing of colonial violence in travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography, and more. As well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In particular, whereas earlier antislavery travelers had tended to promote British imperial expansion as a remedy to slavery, travel texts produced for the three major humanitarian campaigns of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century expressed — and, indeed, gave rise to — changes in the perception of Britain as a nation for whom the protection of Africans remained paramount. Burroughs's study charts the emergence of a subversive eyewitness response in travel writing, which implicated Britons and British industries in the continuing existence of slave labor in regions formally ruled by other nations.

Author : Robert Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317914754

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Travel Writing from Black Australia by Robert Clarke Pdf

Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society. On the one hand, Aboriginality in the form of artworks, literature, performances, landscapes, sport, and famous individuals is celebrated for the way it blends exoticism, mysticism, multiculturalism, nationalism, and reconciliation. On the other hand, in the media, cinema, and travel writing, Aboriginality in the form of the lived experiences of Aboriginal people has been exploited in the service of moral panic, patronized in the name of white benevolence, or simply ignored. For many travel writers, this irony - the clash between different regimes of valuing Aboriginality - is one of the great challenges to travelling in Australia. Travel Writing from Black Australia examines the ambivalence of contemporary travelers’ engagements with Aboriginality. Concentrating on a period marked by the rise of discourses on Aboriginality championing indigenous empowerment, self-determination, and reconciliation, the author analyses how travel to Black Australia has become, for many travelers, a means of discovering ‘new’—and potentially transformative—styles of interracial engagement.

Author : Charles Forsdick,Zoë Kinsley,Kathryn Walchester
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783089239

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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies by Charles Forsdick,Zoë Kinsley,Kathryn Walchester Pdf

In its attention to the ‘keywords of travel’, Keywords for Travel Writing Studies’ takes into account the established status of studies in travel writing and the field’s significance for an audience beyond the academy. It responds to what might be described as the ‘mobility turn’ in the arts and humanities over the past two decades. Each entry in the volume is around 1,000 words, and the style is more essayistic than encyclopaedic, with contributors providing a reflection on their chosen keyword from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The emphasis on travelogues and other cultural representations of mobility drawn from a range of national and linguistic traditions ensures that the volume has a comparative dimension; the aim is to give an overview of each term in its historical and theoretical complexity, providing readers with a clear sense of how the selected words are essential to a critical understanding of travel writing. Each entry is complemented by an annotated bibliography of five essential items suggesting further reading.

Author : Miguel A. Cabañas,Jeanne Dubino,Veronica Salles-Reese,Gary Totten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317585077

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Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing by Miguel A. Cabañas,Jeanne Dubino,Veronica Salles-Reese,Gary Totten Pdf

This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and global citizenship; how they propose real-world political interventions in the places where the traveler goes; what tone they take toward political or socio-political violence; and how they intersect with political debates. Travel writing can be viewed as political in a purely instrumental sense, but, as this volume also demonstrates, travel writing’s reception and ideological interventions also transform personal and cultural realities. This book thus examines the ways in which politics’ material effects inform and intersect with personal experience in travel texts and engage with travel’s dialectic of mobility and stasis. In spite of globalization and efforts to eradicate the colonial vision in travel writing and in travel writing criticism, this vision persists in various and complex ways. While the travelogue can be a space of discursive and direct oppression, these essays suggest that the travelogue is also a narrative space in which the traveler employs the genre to assert authority over his or her experiences of mobility. This book will be an important contribution for interdisciplinary scholars with interests in travel writing studies, global and transnational studies, women’s studies, multicultural studies, the social sciences, and history.

Author : Clare Broome Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317690252

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Women, Travel Writing, and Truth by Clare Broome Saunders Pdf

The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise. Women, Travel, and Truth is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in date from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the eighteenth century to Jamaica Kincaid in the twenty-first, across such regions as India, Italy, Norway, Siberia, Austria, the Orient, the Caribbean, China and Mexico. Topics explored include blurred distinctions of fiction and non-fiction; travel writing and politics; subjectivity; displacement, and exile. Students and academics with interests in literary studies, history, geography, history of art, and modern languages will find this book an important reference.

Author : Michele Longino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317585961

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French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire by Michele Longino Pdf

Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thévenot, Laurent D’Arvieux, Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, Jean Chardin, and Antoine Galland reveal a rich corpus of political, social, and cultural elements relating to the Ottoman Empire at the time, enabling an appreciation of the diverse shapes that travel narratives can take at a distinct historical juncture. Longino examines how these writers construct themselves as authors, characters, and individuals in keeping with the central human project of individuation in the early modern era, also marking the differences that define each of these travelers – the shopper, the envoy, the voyeur, the arriviste, the ethnographer, the merchant. She shows how these narratives complicate and alter political and cultural paradigms in the fields of Mediterranean studies, 17th-century French studies, and cultural studies, arguing for their importance in the canon of early modern narrative forms, and specifically travel writing. The first study to examine these travel journals and writers together, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars covering travel writing, French literature, and history.

Author : Robert Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107153394

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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing by Robert Clarke Pdf

This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.

Author : Tim Youngs,Charles Forsdick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415374995

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Travel Writing by Tim Youngs,Charles Forsdick Pdf

Author : Martyn Cornick,Martin Hurcombe,Angela Kershaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135108786

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French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years by Martyn Cornick,Martin Hurcombe,Angela Kershaw Pdf

This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the well-documented appeal of Soviet communism for French intellectuals alongside their interest in other radical regimes which have been much less studied: fascist Italy, the Iberian dictatorships and Nazi Germany. Through analyses of the travel writing produced as a result of such visits, the book gauges the appeal of these forms of authoritarianism for inter-war French intellectuals from a broad political spectrum. It examines not only those whose political sympathies with the extreme right or extreme left were already publicly known, but also non-aligned intellectuals who were interested in political models that offered an apparently radical alternative to the French Third Republic. This study shows how travel writing provided a space for reflection on the lessons France might learn from the radical political experiments of the inter-war years. It argues that such writing can usefully be read as a form of utopian thinking, distinguishing this from colloquial understandings of utopia as an ideal location. Utopianism is understood neither as a fantasy ungrounded in the real nor as a dangerously totalitarian ideal, but, in line with Karl Mannheim, Paul Ricœur, and Ruth Levitas, as a form of non-congruence with the real that it seeks to transcend. The utopianism of French political travel writing is seen to lie not in the attempt to portray the destination visited as utopia, but rather in the pursuit of a dialogue with radical political alterity.

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472050727

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Extreme Pursuits by Graham Huggan Pdf

A provocative look at travel—both voluntary and otherwise—in an uncertain world

Author : K.J. James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134681129

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Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland by K.J. James Pdf

This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tourist economies, illicit dimensions of tourism, national landscapes, ‘legend’ and invented tradition in modern tourism.

Author : James O'Reilly,Larry Habegger,Sean O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781609520885

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The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10 by James O'Reilly,Larry Habegger,Sean O'Reilly Pdf

The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing — from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures. Includes winners from the annual Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing.

Author : Maria Pia Di Bella,Brian Yothers
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209358

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The Long Journey by Maria Pia Di Bella,Brian Yothers Pdf

Travel writing has, for centuries, composed an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization. This interdisciplinary volume brings together anthropologists, literary scholars, social historians, and other scholars to illuminate travel writing in all its forms. With studies ranging from colonial adventurism to the legacies of the Holocaust, The Long Journey offers a unique dual focus on experience and genre as it applies to three key realms: memory and trauma, confrontations with the Other, and the cultivation of cultural perspective.

Author : Felipe Martínez-Pinzón,Javier Uriarte
Publisher : American Tropics Towards a Lit
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786941831

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Intimate Frontiers by Felipe Martínez-Pinzón,Javier Uriarte Pdf

A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.