Travel, Gender, and Imperialism: Mary Kingsley and West Africa by Alison Blunt

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Travel, Gender, and Imperialism: Mary Kingsley and West Africa by Alison Blunt
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Features

Paperback: 190 pages

Publisher: The Guilford Press March 25, 1994

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0898625467

ISBN-13: 978-0898625462

Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches

Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces

Product Review
"Blunt examines the distinctive features of travel writing bu nineteenth-century women, how these represented spatiality and how women travel writers were constructed in terms of difference. This is clearly written and includes a useful and interesting section on the metaphorical and material importance of travel and travel writing." --The Year's Work in English Studies
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Product Review
"presents compellng ways of bringing together ideas from poststructuralist and postconlonial theory around geographical questions, and provides much material, both for those working within a similar intellectual territory, and for those grappling with more general methodological questions. It should find its place on many reading lists, if it has not already done so, as it previews an accessible contributon to contemporary debates around identity, space, and power." --R Elmhirst, Environment Section, Wye College, University of London, Environment and Planning A

"Blunt's book is innovative, provocative, and clearly written." --Briavel Holcomb, Rutgers University

"This book makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on travel, gender, and empire. Alison Blunt develops a post-structuralist perspective on travel writing which remains sensitive to questions of authorship and subjectivity. Drawing on feminist and post-colonial cultural theory, she constructs a sophisticated account of the ambivalent subject positions of Mary Kingsley within the public and private spheres of late Victorian Britain. By situating Kingsley's writings in the wider context of gendered discourses of 'home' and 'away', the book offers a new perspective on both travel writing and the culture of imperialism more generally." --Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London

"Alison Blunt's fascinating study of Mary Kinglsey offers new insights into the social and intellectual context of British imperialism. By drawing upon poststructuralist and feminist theories, she provides a stimulating and scholarly commentary upon the complex relations between Western women and the empire, the nature of nineteenth century British geography and the place of women in the subject's history. A lively and clearly written account, it is a pleasure to read." --Morag Bell, Ph.D., Loughborough University of Technology

"Blunt examines the distinctive features of travel writing bu nineteenth-century women, how these represented spatiality and how women travel writers were constructed in terms of difference. This is clearly written and includes a useful and interesting section on the metaphorical and material importance of travel and travel writing." --The Year's Work in English Studies

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