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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

By Mary Louise Pratt

Book information

Publisher
Rutledge
Year
2008
ISBN
9780415438179
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (7938406 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
\292
Time added
2022-05-11 09:27:49

Description

Cover Copyrights Contents List of illustrations Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition 1 Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone 2 Science, planetary consciousness, interiors 3 Narrating the anti-conquest 4 Anti-conquest II: The mystique of reciprocity 5 Eros and abolition 6 Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of América 7 Reinventing América II: The capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales 8 Reinventing América/Reinventing Europe: Creole self-fashioning 9 From the Victoria N’yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador 10 In the neocolony: Modernity, mobility, globality Notes Index

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