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Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation
- Title
- Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation / Mary Louise Pratt.
- Author
- Pratt, Mary Louise, 1948-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, c2008.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-2012 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 276 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Africa > Relations > Europe
- Latin America > Relations > Europe
- Imperialism
- European prose literature > History and criticism
- Africa > Historiography
- Africa > Description and travel
- Latin America > Historiography
- Europe > Relations > Latin America
- Europe > Relations > Africa
- Latin America > Description and travel
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-268) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : criticism in the contact zone -- pt. 1. Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- Science, planetary consciousness, interiors -- Narrating the anti-conquest -- Anti-conquest II : the mystique of reciprocity -- Eros and abolition -- pt. 2. The reinvention of América, 1800-50 -- Reinventing América II : the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- Reinventing América/reinventing Europe : Creole self-fashioning -- pt. 3. Imperial stylistics, 1860-2007 -- From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador -- In the neocolony : modernity, mobility, globality.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2012
- ISBN
- 9780415438162 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415438160 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780415438179 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415438179 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780203932933 (ebk.)
- 0203932935 (ebk.)
- LCCN
- 2007024479
- OCLC
- 144548269
- Author
- Pratt, Mary Louise, 1948-
- Title
- Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation / Mary Louise Pratt.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Routledge, c2008.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-268) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2012