From a “liberal” feminist perspective, travel presented one means Wrote narratives about their experiences abroad during the 19th century have been Travel writers, tourists, wives of colonial administrators, and other (mostly) elite women who
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Studies of Victorian women who were professional Such questions are worked through ideologicalĬonstructs that posit men as explorers and women as travelers-or, conversely, men as Imperialism in travel texts, showing how the political, economic, or administrative fact ofĭominance relies on legitimating discourses such as those articulated through travel writing.įeminist geographers’ studies of travel writing challenge the masculinist history of geographyīy questioning who and what are relevant subjects of geographic study and, indeed, whatĬounts as geographic knowledge itself. Said’s work became a model for demonstrating cultural forms of Representations of people in travel texts were intimately bound up with notions of self, in thisĬase, that the Occident defined itself through essentialist, ethnocentric, and racist Particularly Said’s book, Orientalism, helped scholars understand ways in which Metropole and periphery, as did Edward Said’s theories of representation and cultural Ways of thinking about travel writing as embedded within relations of power between Narratives about South America and Africa (e.g., the “monarch of all I survey” trope) offered Louise Pratt’s study of the genres and conventions of 18th- and 19th-century exploration Travel writers’ĭescriptions of foreign places have been analyzed as attempts to validate, promote, orĬhallenge the ideologies and practices of colonial or imperial domination and expansion. Close connections have been observedīetween European (and American) political, economic, and administrative goals for theĬolonies and their manifestations in the cultural practice of writing travel books. Travel writing’s relationship to empire building- as a type of “colonialist discourse”-hasĭrawn the most attention from academicians. Road travel and the value of rural folk traditions.
Protagonists “discovering themselves” on their journeys, emphasizing the independence of Such narratives highlight the experiences of mostly male
forĮxample, inaugurated a new genre of travel literature about the United States-theĪutomotive or road narrative. transcontinental highway during the 1920s. andĪlso affect perception and knowledge-how and what the traveler comes to know and writeĪbout. Writing and perhaps even new “identities.” Modes of transportation determine the types andĭuration of social encounters affect the organization and passage of space and time. Mode of transportation affects the travel experience and thus can produce new types of travel
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