Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 308 g
Mary Kingsley and West Africa
Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 308 g
Reihe: Mappings: Society/Theory/Space
ISBN: 978-0-89862-546-2
Verlag: Guilford Publications
Studies of women travel writers have ranged from anecdotal and celebratory accounts to more critical essays on imperialism or the textualization of difference. This book does more. Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel writer and critic of the Crown Colony system, Alison Blunt cogently examines the relationships among travel, gender, and imperialism. Instead of studying either travel generally or women travel writers in the colonial period specifically, Blunt examines both to show how the spatiality and gendering of travel are inseparable. Underlying her examination are debates about women as a focus of historical research, Western women and imperialism, and the place of women in a historiography of geography.
Zielgruppe
Professional Practice & Development and Undergraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
Weitere Infos & Material
INTRODUCTION "Only a Woman …" CHAPTER 1 Planning a Route: Travel, Travel Writing, and Imperial Representation INTERLUDE (Re)presenting Mary Kingsley CHAPTER2 Departure: Travel Writing and Gendered Subjectivity CHAPTER3 Journey: Space, Place, and Imperial Subjectivity CHAPTER 4 Return: Reconstituting Home POSTLUDE Institutional Responses to Women Travel Writers CONCLUSION