Beyond the Traveller's Gaze

Beyond the Traveller's Gaze
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 3039110535
ISBN-13 : 9783039110537
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond the Traveller's Gaze by : Giorgia Alù

This book offers a stimulating analysis of three non-canonical texts in different genres written by British women who lived in Sicily in the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. These texts cover a series of crucial political events as well as social and cultural changes which affected the history of Sicily during the period in question, all seen through the direct and indirect experiences of the authors. The book offers a historical perspective on the late-Victorian and Edwardian representations of post-Unification Italy. At the same time the author challenges current critical literature on travel writing which tends to analyse travel texts without making substantial distinction between works written during a brief visit to a foreign country and those produced during a long-term or permanent residence. The book adopts an interdisciplinary, comparative approach. The three texts are studied by looking at patterns of connection in other written and visual works produced during, or after, an experience in Italy. By drawing on theories of travel writing, genre and gender, along with visual and cultural studies, the author aims to verify how the three texts respond to being analysed as a distinct group, and hence define the specific roles and functions of expatriate women's writing.

Reversing the Colonial Gaze

Reversing the Colonial Gaze
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN-10 : 9781108853507
ISBN-13 : 1108853501
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Reversing the Colonial Gaze by : Hamid Dabashi

Exploring the furthest reaches of the globe, Persian travelers from Iran and India travelled across Russian and Ottoman territories, to Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe and beyond. Remapping the world through their travelogues, Reversing the Colonial Gaze offers a comprehensive and transformative analysis of the journeys of over a dozen of these nineteenth-century Persian travelers. By moving beyond the dominant Eurocentric perspectives on travel narratives, Hamid Dabashi works to reverse the colonial gaze which has thus far been cast upon these rich body of travelogues. His lyrical and engaging re-evaluation of these journeys, complimented by close-readings of seminal travelogues, challenges the systematic neglect of these narratives in scholarly literature. Opening up the entirety of these overlooked or abused travelogues, Dabashi reveals not a mere repetition of cliché accounts of Iranian or Muslim encounters with the West, but a path-breaking introduction to a constellation of revelatory travel narratives that re-imagine and reclaim the world beyond colonial borders.

British Women Travellers

British Women Travellers
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9781000507485
ISBN-13 : 1000507483
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis British Women Travellers by : Sutapa Dutta

This book studies the exclusive refractive perspectives of British women who took up the twin challenges of travel and writing when Britain was establishing itself as the greatest empire on earth. Contributors explore the ways in which travel writing has defined women’s engagement with Empire and British identity, and was inextricably linked with the issue of identity formation. With a capacious geographical canvas, this volume examines the multifaceted relations and negotiations of British women travellers in a range of different imperial contexts across continents from America, Africa, Europe to Australia.

The Host Gaze in Global Tourism

The Host Gaze in Global Tourism
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Publisher : CABI
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781780640211
ISBN-13 : 1780640218
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Host Gaze in Global Tourism by : Omar Moufakkir

Most tourism theories have been developed from the tourists' perspective and focus on the Anglo-American experience. This unique book for researchers and students of tourism is the first to look at the host gaze; how it is constructed, how it has developed, how it varies between countries and how the tourism industry can affect it. By looking at the gazes of both Western and non-Western hosts, this book analyses the consequences such a gaze can have upon the tourist.

The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze

The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9780295800943
ISBN-13 : 0295800941
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze by : David John Arnold

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India’s material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.

Women, Travel Writing, and Truth

Women, Travel Writing, and Truth
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781317690245
ISBN-13 : 1317690249
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Women, Travel Writing, and Truth by : Clare Broome Saunders

The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise. Women, Travel, and Truth is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in date from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the eighteenth century to Jamaica Kincaid in the twenty-first, across such regions as India, Italy, Norway, Siberia, Austria, the Orient, the Caribbean, China and Mexico. Topics explored include blurred distinctions of fiction and non-fiction; travel writing and politics; subjectivity; displacement, and exile. Students and academics with interests in literary studies, history, geography, history of art, and modern languages will find this book an important reference.

Revisiting Italy

Revisiting Italy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781000381627
ISBN-13 : 1000381625
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Revisiting Italy by : Rebecca Butler

With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment to the Italian campaign for national independence, or Risorgimento (1815–61). Revisiting Italy brings several previously unexamined travel accounts by women to light during a decisive period in this political campaign. Revealing the wider currency of the Risorgimento in British literature, Butler situates once-popular but now-marginalized writers: Clotilda Stisted, Janet Robertson, Mary Pasqualino, Selina Bunbury, Margaret Dunbar and Frances Minto Elliot alongside more prominent figures: the Shelley-Byron circle, the Brownings, Florence Nightingale and the Kemble sisters. Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials. Revisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity and literary authority in women’s travel writing. Whether promoting nationalism through a maternal lens, politicizing the pilgrimage motif or reviving gothic representations of a revolutionary Italy, it identifies shared touristic discourses as temporally contingent, shaped by commercial pressures and the volatile political climate at home and abroad.

Culture on Tour

Culture on Tour
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9780226077635
ISBN-13 : 0226077632
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Culture on Tour by : Edward M. Bruner

Recruited to be a lecturer on a group tour of Indonesia, Edward M. Bruner decided to make the tourists aware of tourism itself. He photographed tourists photographing Indonesians, asking the group how they felt having their pictures taken without their permission. After a dance performance, Bruner explained to the group that the exhibition was not traditional, but instead had been set up specifically for tourists. His efforts to induce reflexivity led to conflict with the tour company, which wanted the displays to be viewed as replicas of culture and to remain unexamined. Although Bruner was eventually fired, the experience became part of a sustained exploration of tourist performances, narratives, and practices. Synthesizing more than twenty years of research in cultural tourism, Culture on Tour analyzes a remarkable variety of tourist productions, ranging from safari excursions in Kenya and dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois. Bruner examines each site in all its particularity, taking account of global and local factors, as well as the multiple perspectives of the various actors—the tourists, the producers, the locals, and even the anthropologist himself. The collection will be essential to those in the field as well as to readers interested in globalization and travel.

La Mamma

La Mamma
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781137542564
ISBN-13 : 113754256X
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis La Mamma by : Penelope Morris

The idea of the “mamma italiana” is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy. This figure makes frequent appearances in jokes and other forms of popular culture, but it has also been seen as shaping the lived experience of modern-day Italians of both sexes, as well as influencing perceptions of Italy in the wider world. This interdisciplinary collection examines the invented tradition of mammismo but also contextualizes it by discussing other, often contrasting, ways in which the role of mothers, and the mother-son relationship, have been understood and represented in culture and society over the last century and a half, both in Italy and in its diaspora.

Constructing Cultural Tourism

Constructing Cultural Tourism
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Publisher : Channel View Publications
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781845411565
ISBN-13 : 1845411560
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Constructing Cultural Tourism by : Keith Hanley

Focusing on the formative influence of the works of John Ruskin in defining and developing cultural tourism, this book describes and assesses their effects on the tourist gaze (where to go and what to see, and how to see it) as directed at landscape, scenery, architecture and townscape, from the early Victorian period onwards.