Imperial Eyes: Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt

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Imperial Eyes: Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt
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Features

Paperback: 257 pages

Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition February 27, 1992

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0415060958

ISBN-13: 978-0415060950

Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds

Product Description

This second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field investigates the way in which travel writing has constructed an image of the world beyond Europe for European readerships.

Focusing on writing about South America and Africa in relation to the political and economic expansion of Europe, this long-awaited second edition of Imperial Eyes:

is updated throughout, including a new preface, an updated introduction and a postscript reflecting critically on the category of the ‘postcolonial’ and how it has changed since the first edition was published in 1992
contains new material, which reads well-known Latin American texts through the concept of neocoloniality and continues to discuss more general questions of the postcolonial in relation to the Americas and new ways of expressing late twentieth-century experiences of migration and displacement
contains new illustrations of relevant documents and artefacts discussed within the text.

About The Author
Mary Louise Pratt is Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.

Reader Reviews
While I understand this book presents a challenge to the reader, it is a seminal book in several fields: Mary Louise Pratt's prose is clear for a literary theorist and her vocabulary/jargon is appropriate to the subject. _Imperial Eyes_ takes the reader through several stages of European travel writing, and the effects these works have upon European representations and constructions of the "other." Pratt's strongest arguments deal with Mary Kingsley and Africa, in my personal opinion, but her work on Linneaus is important and relevant to history and to identity studies as well. As a professor, I would assign this book to an upper-division undergraduate course, and would expect students to have the ability to grapple with her argument and her prose. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the formation of modern European identity, the ideological underpinnings of colonialism, and the construction of the "other." Comment | Permalink | (Report this)

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